Balaur
Field photograph to come
Balaur
DV-0720
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- Romania
- Named by
- Csiki et al. 2010
Field notes
About Balaur
Balaur was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Balaur, from Romania. Its fossils come from rocks including the Densuș-Ciula Formation and the Sebeş Formation. It was named by Csiki et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: Z. Csiki, M. Vremir, and S. L. Brusatte, M. A. Norell. 2010. An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(35):15357-15361