Pyroraptor Allain and Taquet 2000 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae

Full reference: R. Allain and P. Taquet. 2000. A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):404-407

Parent taxon: Dromaeosauridae according to P. Chanthasit and E. Buffetaut 2009

See also Allain and Taquet 2000, Delcourt and Grillo 2014, Godefroit et al. 2008, Sellés et al. 2021, Senter et al. 2004 and Torices et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Balaur, Bambiraptor, Daurlong, Dromaeosauroides, Eudromaeosauria, Halszkaraptorinae, Imperobator, Kuru, Luanchuanraptor, Microraptorinae, Nuthetes, Richardoestesia, Shri, Tianyuraptor, Unenlagiinae, Variraptor, Velociraptorichnus, Wulong, Zhenyuanlong

Subtaxa: Pyroraptor olympius

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Spain (2)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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