Bambiraptor

Bambi thief (robber)

• Bambi · Italian (via the Disney film character) · baby deer; used here for a small, young animal
• raptor · Latin · robber, plunderer, thief

Bambiraptor combines "Bambi", the Disney fawn character, with the Latin "raptor", meaning robber or plunderer. The name was chosen because the first specimen was a small, young individual, a juvenile or subadult. The type species is Bambiraptor feinbergorum, named for the Feinberg family, who supported the work.

Named by

Burnham et al.

Year named

2000

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA

A small dromaeosaurid theropod. The holotype is a well-preserved, mostly complete skeleton of a young animal, found by a teenager in 1993.