Outline: a typical theropod
Murusraptor
"wall thief"
- Lived
- 90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Megaraptoridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Coria and Currie 2016
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Murusraptor
What it was like
Murusraptor was a megaraptor, a lightly built predator with long arms and big hand claws. Its partial skull and skeleton helped show what megaraptors looked like, since most are known from fewer bones.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Sierra Barrosa Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Mendozasaurus and Kaijutitan.
How it was found
Coria and Currie named Murusraptor in 2016. The name refers to the canyon wall where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Megaraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 2016. A new megaraptoran dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. PLoS ONE 11(7):e0157973:1-53