Overoraptor
Field photograph to come
Overoraptor
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- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Motta et al. 2020
Field notes
About Overoraptor
Overoraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 110 to 106 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Overoraptor, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Huincul Formation. It was named by Motta et al. in 2020.
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 Paraves.
Sources: Paleobiology DatabaseNamed in: M. J. Motta, F. L. Agnolin, and F. B. Egli, F. E. Novas. 2020. New theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia sheds light on the paravian radiation in Gondwana. The Science of Nature 107:24