Megaraptor | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Megaraptora |
Family: | †Megaraptoridae |
Genus: | †Megaraptor Novas 1998 |
Species: | †M. namunhuaiquii
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Binomial name | |
†Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas 1998
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Megaraptor (lit. 'large thief') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in the ages of the Late Cretaceous.[2][3] Its fossils have been discovered in the Patagonian Portezuelo Formation of Argentina, South America. Initially thought to have been a giant dromaeosaur-like coelurosaur, it was classified as a neovenatorid allosauroid in previous phylogenies, but more recent phylogeny and discoveries of related megaraptoran genera has placed it as either a basal tyrannosauroid or a basal coelurosaur with some studies still considering it a neovenatorid.[4][5]
Juan D. Porfiri, Fernando E. Novas, Jorge O. Calvo, Federico L. Agnolín, Martín D. Ezcurra and Ignacio A. Cerda 2014 35–55
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