Austroraptor

Also known as Austroraptors

Austroraptor ( ) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.

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Parent taxon: Unenlagiinae
Image: Austroraptor Restoration.png

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Commons category: Austroraptor
taxon name: Austroraptor
taxon rank: genus
start time: 78000000-0
end time: 66000000-0
time period: Late Cretaceous

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Description
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Austroraptor ( ) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.

Austroraptor was a large, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, measuring around long and weighing up to . It is one of the largest paravians known, with only large dromaeosaurids such as Achillobator and Utahraptor approaching a similar size.

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