Genus

Valid Extinct

Halszkaraptor

Cau et al. 2017

Halszkaraptor is a genus of waterfowl-like dromaeosaurid dinosaurs from Mongolia that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It contains only one known species, Halszkaraptor escuilliei.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial

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Exposed elements of H. escuilliei holotype; ep epicleideum, st sternal plates. Scale bar: 70 mm. © Andrea Cau, Vincent Beyrand, Rinchen Barsbold, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar & Pascal Godefroit · CC BY 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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Halszkaraptorinae Subfamily

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Halszkaraptor Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇲🇳 Mongolia

Geological formations

Djadokhta

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (1)

Halszkaraptor escuilliei 84 Ma

Images 2

Bibliography

Original description

A. Cau, V. Beyrand, and D. F. A. E. Voeten, V. Fernandez, P. Tafforeau, K. Stein, R. Barsbold, K. Tsogtbaatar, P. J. Currie, P. Godefroit. 2017. Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs. Nature DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)