Unenlagia
"half-bird"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Unenlagia 3.5 m (11.5 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (89 Mya)
- Place
- South America
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Unenlagia (meaning “half-bird” in Latinized Mapudungun) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. The genus Unenlagia has been assigned two species: U. comahuensis, the type species described by Novas and Puerta in 1997, and U. paynemili, described by Calvo et al. in 2004.
What we know
- Named by Novas & Puerta, 1997.
- Body length estimated at about 3.5 m.
- Fossils found in South America.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Unenlagia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.