Apatoraptor

deceptive thief

• apatē · Greek · deceit, deception
• raptor · Latin · robber, thief

The name combines the Greek "apatē" (deceit, also the name of a Greek goddess of deception) with the Latin "raptor" (robber or thief). It was chosen because the animal's skeleton looked deceptively like that of a different kind of theropod, which made it hard to place at first. The species name, pennatus, is Latin for "feathered" or "winged". It refers to the ulna, which has quill knobs showing that it had feathers.

Named by

Funston and Currie

Year named

2016

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada

A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur, a feathered theropod. The type species is Apatoraptor pennatus. I am not certain of the exact geologic stage, so I have left it blank.