Condorraptor

Condorraptor
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
(unranked): Tetanurae
Superfamily: Megalosauroidea[1]
Genus: Condorraptor
Binomial name
Condorraptor currumili
Rauhut, 2005

Condorraptor (meaning robber or snatcher from Cerro Condor) is a genus of megalosauroid theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now Argentina, Canadon Asfalto Formation. The type species, described in 2005, is Condorraptor currumili. It is based on a tibia, with an associated partial skeleton that may belong to the same individual. Initially described as a basal tetanuran,[2] Benson (2010) found it to be a megalosauroid and the sister taxon of Piatnitzkysaurus.[1] An articulated skeleton was reported in 2007.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Benson, R.B.J. (2010). "A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4): 882–935. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x.
  2. ↑ Rauhut, 2005. Osteology and relationships of a new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Patagonia. Palaeontology. 48(1), 87-110.
  3. ↑ Ryan, Michael J. 2007. New Condorraptor Unearthed. Palaeoblog. (reposting of news article)


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