Neuquenraptor argentinus
Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- NeuquenraptorPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Neuquenraptor argentinus 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Portezuelo Formation · Neuquén Group2
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The named rock units Neuquenraptor argentinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neuquenraptor argentinus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Neuquenraptor argentinus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Titanosauridae2 sites
- Abelisauridae1 site
- Azhdarchoidea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachyrostra1 site
- Carcharodontosauridae1 site
- Comahuesuchus bonapartei1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Elongatoolithidae1 site
- Euteleostei1 site
- Futalognkosaurus dukei1 site
- Iguanodontia1 site
- Leufuichthys minimus1 site
- Lomasuchus palpebrosus1 site
- Maniraptora1 site
- Megaraptor namunhuaiquii1 site
- Pelomedusidae1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Unenlagia paynemili1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Neuquenraptor argentinus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Restos apendiculares asignados a terópodos provenientes del sitio Futalognko (Cretácico Tardío), Lago Barreales, Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina [Appendicular remains assigned to theropods from the Futalognko site (Late Cretaceous), Lago Barreales, Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina]1
- New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia1
Each of the 2 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. 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 content1
Picture of Neuquenraptor argentinus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Neuquenraptor argentinus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNeuquenraptor through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novas and Pol 2005