Neuquenraptor
Field photograph to come
Neuquenraptor
DV-0585 · type species Neuquenraptor argentinus
- Lived
- 94 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Novas and Pol 2005
Field notes
About Neuquenraptor
Neuquenraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 86 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Neuquenraptor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Portezuelo Formation. It was named by Novas and Pol in 2005.
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 Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. E. Novas and D. Pol. 2005. New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433:858-861