Buitreraptor

Buitreraptor
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
~98–97 Ma
Mounted skeleton, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Subfamily: Unenlagiinae
Genus: Buitreraptor
Makovicky et al. 2005
Type species
Buitreraptor gonzalezorum
Makovicky et al. 2005

Buitreraptor (meaning "La Buitrera seizer") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina at the Candeleros Formation. Buitreraptor was described in 2005 and the type species is Buitreraptor gonzalezorum. It was rooster-sized and had a very elongated head with many small teeth.