Buitreraptor

vulture raptor (robber) of La Buitrera

• buitre · Spanish · vulture (from the La Buitrera locality)
• raptor · Latin · robber, plunderer

The name combines Spanish "buitre" (vulture) with Latin "raptor" (robber or plunderer). It refers to La Buitrera, the fossil locality in Río Negro Province, Argentina, where the type specimen was found. The locality was itself named for the vultures that nest there. The type species is Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, named for the González family, who found the fossil.

Named by

Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín

Year named

2005

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Cenomanian – Turonian

Found in

Candeleros Formation (Río Limay Subgroup), La Buitrera, Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina

A small, long-snouted dromaeosaurid, a member of the subfamily Unenlagiinae. It is known from several well-preserved specimens.