Pyroraptor
"fire thief"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pyroraptor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Pyroraptor (meaning “fire thief”) is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 72 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.
What we know
- Named by Allain & Taquet, 2000.
- Fossils found in France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pyroraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.