Santanaraptor

DV-0450 · type species Santanaraptor placidus

Lived: 120 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: Brazil
Named by: Kellner 1999

Field notes

About Santanaraptor

Santanaraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 120 to 113 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Santanaraptor, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Romualdo Formation. It was named by Kellner in 1999.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

115 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Irritatortheropod
Mirischiatheropod
Aratasaurustheropod
Angaturamatheropod

Close relatives

Other members of Coelurosauria.

CoelurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
TanycolagreusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
JuravenatorLate Jurassic
ZuolongLate Jurassic
BicentenariaEarly Cretaceous
NedcolbertiaEarly Cretaceous
AratasaurusEarly Cretaceous
XinjiangovenatorEarly Cretaceous

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. Short note on a new dinosaur (Theropoda, Coelurosauria) from the Santana Formation (Romualdo Member, Albian), northeastern Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional, Nova Série 49:1-8