Santanaraptor

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Santanaraptor Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda (unranked) Coelurosauria Family: unknown Genus: Santanaraptor Kellner, 1999
Species
S. placidus Kellner, 1999 (type)

Santanaraptor (meaning "Santana [Formation] thief") is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the mid-Cretaceous period ~108 mya. This carnivore was around two meters long (6.5 ft). Its fossils were found in Brazil.

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

[edit] References

• Kellner, A.W.A. (1999). Short Note on a new dinosaur (Theropoda, Coelurosauria) from the Santana Formation (Romualdo Member, Albian), northeastern Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional (Serie Geologia) 49: 1–8.

[edit] External Links

• Thescelosaurus! (under Coelurosauria i.s.)