LegendaryBuitreraptor
Buitreraptor gonzalezorum
BWEE-treh-RAP-tor· “La Buitrera thief”
🕰️ Cretaceous🥩 carnivore🦴 Dromaeosauridae
1.5 m
Length
0.4 m
Height
3 kg
Weight
A slender, long-snouted southern raptor about the size of a chicken, and a small cousin of the much larger Austroraptor.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~90 million years ago
Found in
Argentina
Discovered
Peter Makovicky, 2005
Did you know?
- It had a long, low snout full of tiny teeth.
- Its teeth lacked the usual steak-knife serrations.
- It was a small relative of the giant raptor Austroraptor.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.