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Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They date from the early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation (Aptian stage), 125 to 120 million years ago.
Microraptoria (Greek, μίκρος, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a clade of basal dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs. Definitive microraptorians lived during the Barremian to Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous in China.
Utahraptor is a member of the family Dromaeosauridae, a clade of theropod dinosaurs commonly known as "raptors". Utahraptor is the largest known genus in the family and belongs to the same clade of other notable dinosaurs such as Velociraptor , Deinonychus , or Dromaeosaurus .
A lifesize model of a Dracoraptor at the National Museum Cardiff. The first Dracoraptor fossils were discovered in 2014 near the Welsh town of Penarth.In March 2014, brothers and amateur palaeontologists Nick and Rob Hanigan, while searching for ichthyosaur remains at Lavernock Point, a large cape south of Cardiff, found stone plates containing dinosaur fossils which had fallen off the 7-metre ...
Gideon Mantell's famous original Iguanodon drawing with the incorrect placement of the thumb spike on Iguanodon's nose. Photo credit: Commons:User:Mgiganteus Life restoration of Velociraptor mongoliensis with extensive feathering
Hypothetical life restoration as a megaraptoran. The type specimen of Rapator was originally described as a metacarpal I, a bone from the upper part of a theropod's hand. [3] It was later noted that the bone is similar to a finger bone, the first phalanx of the first finger, of an alvarezsaur [9] or of a primitive coelurosaurian similar to Nqwebasaurus. [10]
The genus name Austroraptor means "Southern Thief," and is derived from the Latin word auster meaning "the south wind" and the Latin word raptor meaning "thief." The specific name cabazai was chosen in honor of Héctor "Tito" Cabaza, who founded the Museo Municipal de Lamarque where the specimen was partially studied. [1]
The role of art in disseminating paleontological knowledge took on a new salience as dinosaur illustration advanced alongside dinosaur paleontology in the mid-1800s. With only fragmentary fossil remains known at the time the term "dinosaur" was coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1841, the question of life appearance of dinosaurs captured the ...