| Rapator Temporal range: Middle Cenomanian,
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| Holotype metacarpal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Megaraptora |
| Genus: | †Rapator von Huene, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| †Rapator ornitholestoides von Huene, 1932
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Rapator is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia, dating to the Cenomanian age[1] of the Cretaceous period.[2] It contains only the type species, Rapator ornitholestoides, which was originally named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932.[3]
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