Murusraptor
Field photograph to come
Murusraptor
DV-0957
- Lived
- 90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megaraptoridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria and Currie 2016
Field notes
About Murusraptor
Murusraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 86 million years ago. It belongs to the family Megaraptoridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Murusraptor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Sierra Barrosa Formation. It was named by Coria and Currie in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Megaraptoridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 2016. A new megaraptoran dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. PLoS ONE 11(7):e0157973:1-53