Unenlagia

This article is about the dinosaur. For the Zoid by the same name, see Unenlagia (Zoids).

Unenlagia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
~89 Ma
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Illustration of known material of U. comahuensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Dromaeosauridae
Subfamily: †Unenlagiinae
Genus: †Unenlagia
Novas & Puerta, 1997
Species
  • †U. comahuensis Novas & Puerta, 1997 (type)
  • †U. paynemili Calvo, Porfiri & Kellner, 2004

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]

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