| Fukuiraptor Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Reconstructed skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Megaraptora |
| Genus: | †Fukuiraptor Azuma & Currie, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| †Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis Azuma & Currie, 2000
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Fukuiraptor ("thief of Fukui") was a medium-sized megaraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous epoch (either Barremian or Aptian) that lived in what is now Japan.[1] Fukuiraptor is known from the Kitadani Formation[2] and possibly also the Sebayashi Formation.[3]
- ^ Azuma, Yoichi; Philip J., Currie (2000). "A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 37 (12): 1735–1753. Bibcode:2000CaJES..37.1735A. doi:10.1139/e00-064.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
CurrieAzuma-2006was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "A tooth of Fukuiraptor aff. F. kitadaniensis from the Lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation, Sanchu Cretaceous, Japan: 東京学芸大学リポジトリ". ir.u-gakugei.ac.jp. Retrieved 9 October 2020.