| Pneumatoraptor Temporal range: Santonian,
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| Holotype left scapulocoracoid | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Paraves |
| Genus: | †Pneumatoraptor Ősi, Apesteguía & Kowalewski, 2010 |
| Species: | †P. fodori
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pneumatoraptor fodori Ősi, Apesteguía & Kowalewski, 2010
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Pneumatoraptor is a genus of small, paravian dinosaur that lived in Hungary. It is known from a single complete left shoulder girdle (scapulocoracoid) found in the Csehbánya Formation of the Iharkút locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary. This formation dates to the late Cretaceous period (Santonian age) about 85 million years ago.[1]
The type species is Pneumatoraptor fodori, named for Géza Fodor, who provided funding for the dig. The genus name Pneumatoraptor, which means "air thief",[2] refers to the pneumaticity of the bone, the hollow spaces that would have been filled with air sacs in life. The holotype specimen is identified by the catalog number MTM V.2008.38.1. and housed at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest.[1]
- ^ a b Ősi, A., Apesteguía, S.M and Kowalewski, M. (2010). "Non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the early Late Cretaceous of Central Europe." Cretaceous Research 31: 304-320, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.01.001
- ^ Atkinson, L. "PNEUMATORAPTOR :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive". ‹http://www.dinochecker.com/dinosaurs/PNEUMATORAPTOR›. Web access: 13th Nov 2020.