Genus
Valid Extinct

Ypupiara

Brum et al. 2021

Ypupiara is an extinct genus of unenlagiine theropod from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation of Brazil. It was the first member of the Dromaeosauridae to be discovered in South America and the first member of the Unenlagiinae to be discovered, but not the first to be identified as such. The type and only species, Y. lopai, is known solely from a specimen that was destroyed in a fire in 2018.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Ypupiara
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A life restoration of Ypupiara lopai. Because only the maxilla and dentary are known I have only sketched the head. © BipedalSarcopterygian201.3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptora Unranked clade
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Paraves Unranked clade
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Deinonychosauria Infraorder
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Dromaeosauridae Family
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Unenlagiinae Subfamily
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Ypupiara Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Serra da Galga
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Ypupiara lopai 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. S. Brum, R. V. Pêgas, and K. L. N. Bandeira, L. G. Souza, D. A. Campos, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):2075-2099 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
A. S. Brum, R. V. Pêgas, and K. L. N. Bandeira, L. G. Souza, D. A. Campos, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Papers in Palaeontology 7(4):2075-2099 DOI ↗