Pyroraptor

Pyroraptor
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
~72 Ma
Figured material of Pyroraptor restored as a generalized dromaeosaurid and an unenlagiine
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Genus: Pyroraptor
Allain & Taquet, 2000
Species:
P. olympius
Binomial name
Pyroraptor olympius
Allain & Taquet, 2000

Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 72 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.