Species
Valid Extinct

Pyroraptor olympius

Allain and Taquet 2000

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
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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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Pyroraptor Genus
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Pyroraptor olympius Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
2
🇫🇷 France
1
Geological formations
Vitoria
1
La Posa
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
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 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
A. Torices, P. J. Currie, and J. I. Canudo, X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2015. Theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3):611-626 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗