Pyroraptor
Pyroraptor olympius
Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 72 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.
- Family
- Dromaeosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (70.6 Ma)
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- 2.0 m
- Weight
- 20 kg
- Type locality
- Provence, France
- Holotype
- MHNA.PaL.1998-5-12
- PBDB
- txn:65133