Aoniraptor
Field photograph to come
Aoniraptor
DV-0941
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Motta et al. 2016
Field notes
About Aoniraptor
Aoniraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 106 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Aoniraptor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Huincul Formation. It was named by Motta et al. in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Megaraptora.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. J. Motta, A. M. Aranciaga Rolando, and S. Rozadilla, F. L. Agnolin, N. R. Chimento, F. Brissón Egli, F. E. Novas. 2016. New theropod fauna from the Upper Cretaceous (Huincul Formation) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Period: Biotic Diversity and Biogeography. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 71:231-253