Maip macrothorax
"large"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Maip 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Megaraptoridae
Maip is a genus of large megaraptorid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, M. macrothorax, known from an incomplete, disarticulated skeleton. Maip may represent the largest megaraptorid known from South America, and possibly the world.
What we know
- Named by Aranciaga Rolando et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Maip — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.