Ypupiara
"the one who lives in the water"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ypupiara 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 · Brazil
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Ypupiara (meaning “the one who lives in the water”) is an extinct genus of unenlagiine theropod from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation of Brazil. It was the first member of the Dromaeosauridae to be discovered in South America and the first member of the Unenlagiinae to be discovered, but not the first to be identified as such. The type and only species, Y. lopai, is known solely from a specimen that was destroyed in a fire in 2018.
What we know
- Named by Brum et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in South America and Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Ypupiara — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.