Santanaraptor

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Santanaraptor
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
(unranked) Coelurosauria
Family: Coeluridae?
Genus: Santanaraptor
Binomial name
Santanaraptor placidus
Kellner, 1999

Santanaraptor is the name given to a genus of theropod that lived in the mid-Cretaceous period 108 mya. This carnivore was around 6.5 feet tall. Its fossils were found in Brazil.

The type species is S. placidus, first described by Kellner in 1999.

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