Bambiraptor is a Late Cretaceous, 72-million-year-old, bird-like dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur described by scientists at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the University of New Orleans.
The holotype fossil is less than one meter long, although this specimen appears to be a juvenile,[1] and it is possible that Bambiraptor is a juvenile Saurornitholestes.[2] It is even suspected that the type specimen is a chimera, based on the fact that "there are elements of three different similarly sized lower legs included in the holotype."[2] Because of its small size, it was named Bambiraptor feinbergi, after the popular Disney movie character (the name literally translates to "Bambi thief") and the surname of the wealthy family who bought and lent the specimen to the new Graves Museum of Natural History in Florida.
^[1] Archived April 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ abPittman, M.; O'Connor, J.; Tse, E.; Makovicky, P.; Field, D.J.; Ma, W.; Turner, A.H.; Norell, M.A.; Pei, R.; Xu, X. (2020). "Chapter 2 – The Fossil Record of Mesozoic and Paleocene Pennaraptorans" (PDF). In Pittman, M.; Xing, X. (eds.). Pennaraptoran Theropod Dinosaurs: Past Progress and New Frontiers. Bulletin of the American Museum Of Natural History. pp. 37–95. doi:10.17863/CAM.59245. ISSN 0003-0090.
Bambiraptor is a Late Cretaceous, 72-million-year-old, bird-like dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur described by scientists at the University of Kansas,...
measuring 2 m (6.6 ft) long and weighing 15 kg (33 lb). It differs from Bambiraptor and other Dromaeosaurids in its more isodont dentition—the teeth have...
Phil (2006). "Comparison of Forelimb Function Between Deinonychus And Bambiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26...
forward by 45 million years. While the Late Cretaceous, North American Bambiraptor had sometimes been classified as a microraptorine, other researchers...
calcaneum, the upper ankle bones, are fused and similar to those in Bambiraptor. The top of the calcaneum has but a small contact facet for the calfbone...
non-avian dinosaurs with the exception of certain small maniraptoriforms (Bambiraptor, Troodon and Ornithomimus). The study found that Tyrannosaurus's relative...
from top left to lower right: Utahraptor, Deinonychus, Velociraptor and Bambiraptor Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:...
genera Atrociraptor marshalli, Saurornitholestes langstoni, and possibly Bambiraptor feinbergi and Acheroraptor temertyorum. All are medium-sized dromaeosaurs...
undergrowth branches when searching for prey. The small predatory dinosaur Bambiraptor may have had mutually opposable first and third fingers and a forelimb...
Troodon and the basal ornithopod Orodromeus, as well as the dromaeosaurid Bambiraptor and the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus. Another species of hadrosaurids,...
premaxillary teeth of (at least) Saurornitholestes, Velociraptor, and Bambiraptor may have been structurally specialized for preening feathers. This may...
phylogenetic analysis where it was recovered as the sister taxon of Bambiraptor, within an expanded Microraptoria. However, the authors of this study...
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