Orkoraptor
Field photograph to come
Orkoraptor
DV-0663
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megaraptoridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Novas et al. 2008
Field notes
About Orkoraptor
Orkoraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Megaraptoridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Orkoraptor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation. It was named by Novas et al. in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Megaraptoridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. E. Novas, M. D. Ezcurra, and A. Lecuona. 2008. Orkoraptor burkei nov. gen. et sp., a large theropod from the Maastrichtian Pari Aike Formation, southern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 29(3):468-480