Buitreraptor
Dromaeosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buitreraptor (meaning "La Buitrera seizer") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina at the Candeleros Formation. Buitreraptor was described in 2005 and the type species is Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. It was rooster-sized and had a very elongated head with many small teeth.
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Buitreraptor | |
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Mounted skeleton, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Unenlagiinae |
Genus: | †Buitreraptor Makovicky et al. 2005 |
Type species | |
†Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky et al. 2005 |
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