Murusraptor barrosaensis Coria and Currie 2016 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Megaraptoridae

Full reference: R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 2016. A new megaraptoran dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. PLoS ONE 11(7):e0157973:1-53

Belongs to Murusraptor according to A. M. Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2019

See also Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2022, Aranciaga Rolando et al. 2022, Baiano and Filippi 2022, Coria and Currie 2016, Lamanna et al. 2020 and Paulina-Carabajal and Currie 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCF-PVPH-411, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Sierra Barrosa (Sierra Barrosa) [MCF], which is in a Coniacian terrestrial horizon in the Sierra Barrosa Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sierra Barrosa (Sierra Barrosa) [MCF]

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