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Pyroraptor
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Class:Sauropsida
Superorder:Dinosauria
Order:Saurischia
Suborder:Theropoda
Family:Dromaeosauridae
Genus:Pyroraptor
Allain & Taquet, 2000
Species


P. olympius Allain & Taquet, 2000
Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief", because its remains were discovered after a forest fire) was a small, bird like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (76-74 million years ago). It is estimated to grow to be 2.5 metres (8 feet).

Discoveries

The first and only identified member was found in the south of France, in Provence, and is known only from a few bones.

Pyroraptor was a dromaeosaur, a small, bird-like predatory theropod that possessed enlarged curved, slashing claws on the second toe of each foot. Each of these claws were 6.5 centimeters (2.5 in) long.

Fossilized teeth, foot claws, arm and back bones of this dromaeosaur were discovered in the south of France. It lived during the Cretaceous, 70 million years ago. Pyroraptor may be the same as Variraptor, also a dromaeosaur from the same area of France. Pyroraptor was named by Allain and Taquet in 2000.

In Popular Culture

Pyroraptor was featured in one episode of Dinosaur Planet, one particular individual named "Pod" was swept onto an island by a giant wave. On that island, all the dinosaurs he knows are there, but in miniature versions. In the end, he finds a new family when he is accepted by a pack of mini troodonts.

References

  • Allain, R., and P. Taquet. 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20: 404-407 [June 27, 2000]

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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses
  • Anapsida
  • Diapsida
Synonyms
  • Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842

Orders & Suborders
  • Ornithischia
  • Cerapoda
  • Thyreophora
  • Saurischia

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Saurischia
Seeley, 1887

Suborders
  • Theropoda
  • Sauropodomorpha


Saurischia (from the Greek sauros (σαυρος) meaning 'lizard' and ischion (
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Theropoda
Marsh, 1881

Infraorders
  • Carnosauria
  • Ceratosauria
  • Deinonychosauria
  • Ornithomimosauria
  • Oviraptorosauria


Theropods ('beast feet') are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.
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Dromaeosauridae
Matthew & Brown, 1922

Genera

See text.

Dromaeosauridae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs. They were mainly small, gracile carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period.
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire, forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, peat fire ("gambut" in Indonesia), bushfire (in Australasia), or hill fire
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Dinosauria *
Owen, 1842

Orders & Suborders
  • Ornithischia
  • Cerapoda
  • Thyreophora
  • Saurischia

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The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i.e. from 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago (Ma)) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (about 65.5 ± 0.3 Ma).
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A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Provence (Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
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Variraptor
Le Loeuff & Buffetaut, 1998

Species

V. mechinorum Le Loeuff & Buffetaut, 1998

Variraptor (VAHR-i-RAP-tor - (Latin) Varus for a name of a river + (Latin) raptor meaning "thief") named after the Var River
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Dinosaur Planet may refer to:
  • Dinosaur Planet (novel), a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey.
  • Dinosaur Planet, a planet in the fictional universe of the Star Fox series of video games. Later known as Sauria.

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Troodontidae
Gilmore, 1924

Genera

See text.

Troodontidae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs.

In previous decades, troodontid fossils were few and scrappy and they have therefore been allied, at various times, with nearly every
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