Megaraptora

Megaraptora is a clade of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs. Its derived members, the Megaraptoridae are noted for their large hand claws and powerfully-built forelimbs, which are usually reduced in size in other large theropods.

Megaraptora

Rodolfo A. Coria, Philip J. Currie · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoelurosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence121.4 Mya72.2 Mya127 Mya65 Mya

50 occurrences of Megaraptora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

50 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

21 formations

"Wonthaggi" — 38.67°S, 145.68°E"Wonthaggi" — 38.55°S, 145.46°EChorrillo — 50.48°S, 72.56°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.55°WEumeralla — 36.70°S, 143.40°EEumeralla — 38.85°S, 143.55°EBajo de la Carpa — 39.63°S, 68.35°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.43°S, 68.62°WBajo de la Carpa — 37.59°S, 69.32°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.56°S, 68.69°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.72°WPortezuelo — 38.90°S, 69.55°WPortezuelo — 38.45°S, 68.79°WWinton — 22.20°S, 142.53°EWinton — 22.35°S, 143.09°ELago Colhué Huapi — 45.44°S, 68.75°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.60°S, 68.62°WLago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.44°WSao Khua — 16.90°N, 102.54°ESao Khua — 16.70°N, 102.25°EBajo Barreal — 45.99°S, 69.57°WBajo Barreal — 44.77°S, 69.18°WBajo Barreal — 44.95°S, 69.26°WAnacleto — 37.13°S, 69.33°WGriman Creek — 29.46°S, 147.97°EGriman Creek — 29.60°S, 147.68°ECerro Fortaleza — 49.85°S, 72.11°WCedar Mountain — 38.90°N, 111.69°WHuincul — 39.40°S, 68.62°WSierra Barrosa — 38.85°S, 68.84°WCambambe — 5.14°S, 55.77°WSão José do Rio Preto — 21.03°S, 49.21°WAçu — 5.16°S, 38.10°WDorotea — 50.74°S, 72.53°WRomualdo — 7.22°S, 39.27°WUberaba — 19.74°S, 47.96°W

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The named rock units Megaraptora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megaraptora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Megaraptora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Megaraptora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

41 references

Each of the 50 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 29 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Megaraptora

Credit
Rodolfo A. Coria, Philip J. Currie
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Megaraptora indet. · nmv:p:208096

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Saurus
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoelurosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Benson et al. 2010