Buitreraptor

Buitreraptor; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,; ~98–97 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Reconstructed skeleton of the holotype MPCA 245 at the Carlos Ameghino Provincial Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Unenlagiidae
Subfamily:	†Unenlagiinae
Genus:	†Buitreraptor; Makovicky et al. 2005
Type species
	†Buitreraptor gonzalezorum; Makovicky et al. 2005

Buitreraptor is a small dromaeosaur from the Cretaceous of Argentina. It was about four to five feet long (1.5 metres).^[1]

*Buitreraptor* (front) and *Deinonychus* (behind) at the Field Museum of Natural History

Buitreraptor has a slender, flat, extremely elongated snout. Its jaws have many small teeth which lack meat-tearing serrations or cutting edges. They are grooved, strongly recurved and flattened.^[2] This probably meant it ate quite small animals, like lizards and mammals.

Since its close relatives had feathers, it is likely that Buitreraptor also was feathered.

References change

↑ Paul G.S. 2010. The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, 139.
↑ Gianechini F.A.; Makovicky P.J; Apesteguía S. (2011). "The teeth of the unenlagiine theropod Buitreraptor from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, and the unusual dentition of the Gondwanan dromaeosaurids". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (2): 279–290. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0127. S2CID 62811731.

[1] Paul G.S. 2010. The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs. Princeton University Press, 139.

[2] Gianechini F.A.; Makovicky P.J; Apesteguía S. (2011). "The teeth of the unenlagiine theropod Buitreraptor from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, and the unusual dentition of the Gondwanan dromaeosaurids". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (2): 279–290. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0127. S2CID 62811731.

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