Tratayenia
Field photograph to come
Tratayenia
DV-1039
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megaraptoridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Porfiri et al. 2018
Field notes
About Tratayenia
Tratayenia was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Megaraptoridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tratayenia, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Porfiri et al. in 2018.
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: J. D. Porfiri, R. D. Juárez Valieri, and D. D. D. Santos, M. C. Lamanna. 2018. A new megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of northwestern Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 89:302-319