Buitreraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skeleton of the holotype MPCA 245 at the Carlos Ameghino Provincial Museum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Unenlagiidae |
Subfamily: | †Unenlagiinae |
Genus: | †Buitreraptor Makovicky et al. 2005 |
Type species | |
†Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky et al. 2005
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Buitreraptor is a small dromaeosaur from the Cretaceous of Argentina. It was about four to five feet long (1.5 metres).[1]
Buitreraptor has a slender, flat, extremely elongated snout. Its jaws have many small teeth which lack meat-tearing serrations or cutting edges. They are grooved, strongly recurved and flattened.[2] This probably meant it ate quite small animals, like lizards and mammals.
Since its close relatives had feathers, it is likely that Buitreraptor also was feathered.