Unenlagia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Illustration of known material of U. comahuensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Unenlagiinae |
Genus: | †Unenlagia Novas & Puerta, 1997 |
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Unenlagia (meaning "half-bird" in Latinized Mapudungun) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period.[1] The genus Unenlagia has been assigned two species: U. comahuensis, the type species described by Novas and Puerta in 1997,[1] and U. paynemili, described by Calvo et al. in 2004.[2]