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Austroraptor Austroraptor cabazai Novas et al. 2008

/ˌɔːstroʊˈræptər/
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling

Where It Was Found

Country
Argentina
Region
Río Negro
Formation
Allen
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Argentina. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Austroraptor cabazai is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 72.2–66.0 million years ago. It was a carnivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling. Fossils have been recovered from Río Negro, Argentina. It was named by Novas et al. 2008. The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~8%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Austroraptor cabazai sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Austroraptor
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Austroraptor cabazai's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.

predator–prey
Rocasaurus
Rocasaurus muniozi
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predator–prey
Huallasaurus
Huallasaurus australis
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predator–prey
Titanomachya
Titanomachya gimenezi
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coexisted–with
Triceratops
Triceratops horridus
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coexisted–with
Alamosaurus
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis
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coexisted–with
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus annectens
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coexisted–with
Thescelosaurus
Thescelosaurus neglectus
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coexisted–with
Pachycephalosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
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