Santanaraptor placidus
"Santana Formation thief"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Santanaraptor 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.5 m (4.9 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (112 Mya)
- Place
- South America
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Santanaraptor (meaning “Santana Formation thief”) is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian-early Albian), about 112 million years ago.
What we know
- Named by Kellner, 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
- Fossils found in South America.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Santanaraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.