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Variraptor
Taxonomy
Variraptor was named by Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1998).
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Senter et al. (2004); and to Dromaeosauridae by Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1998), Le Loeuff (1998), Laurent et al. (2001), Buffetaut (2005), Godefroit et al. (2008), Chanthasit and Buffetaut (2009) and Sellés et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Coelurosauria by Senter et al. (2004); and to Dromaeosauridae by Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1998), Le Loeuff (1998), Laurent et al. (2001), Buffetaut (2005), Godefroit et al. (2008), Chanthasit and Buffetaut (2009) and Sellés et al. (2021).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Variraptor Le Loeuff p. 53 |
| 1998 | Variraptor Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 106 figs. 2-6 |
| 2001 | Variraptor Laurent et al. p. 660 |
| 2004 | Variraptor Senter et al. p. 6 fig. 4D |
| 2005 | Variraptor Buffetaut p. 44 |
| 2008 | Variraptor Godefroit et al. p. 432 |
| 2009 | Variraptor Chanthasit and Buffetaut p. 153 |
| 2021 | Variraptor Sellés et al. p. 1 |
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G. †Variraptor Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998
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†Variraptor mechinorum Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut 1998 | As for the type and only species. |
Measurements
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| References: Marsh 1875, Holtz et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) | V. mechinorum (28454) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) | Dromaeosauridae indet. (28455) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | France (Languedoc-Roussillon) | Theropoda indet. (48850) |