Megaraptor (lit.'large thief') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in the ages of the Late Cretaceous.[2][3] Its fossils have been discovered in the Patagonian Portezuelo Formation of Argentina, South America. Initially thought to have been a giant dromaeosaur-like coelurosaur, it was classified as a neovenatorid allosauroid in previous phylogenies, but more recent phylogeny and discoveries of related megaraptoran genera has placed it as either a basal tyrannosauroid or a basal coelurosaur with some studies still considering it a neovenatorid.[4][5]
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^Rauhut, Oliver (2019). "Probable basal allosauroid from the early Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina highlights phylogenetic uncertainty in tetanuran theropod dinosaurs". Sci Rep. 9 (1): 18826. Bibcode:2019NatSR...918826R. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53672-7. PMC 6906444. PMID 31827108.
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Megaraptor (lit. 'large thief') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in the ages of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been discovered in...
small. Megaraptoran skull material is very incomplete, but a juvenile Megaraptor described in 2014 preserved a portion of the snout, which was long and...
Neovenator was closely related to carcharodontosaurids, simultaneously found Megaraptor and related genera to be coelurosaurs closely related to tyrannosaurids...
megaraptoran, potentially sister taxon to Australovenator. They mentioned that Megaraptor, the only other taxon also preserving metacarpal I, was less similar to...
classified. Some of these 'wildcard' taxa, such as Poekilopleuron and Megaraptor, have been considered possible megalosauroids in the past, but the analysis...
2000, and were scientifically described in 2007, alongside sauropods, Megaraptor, Unenlagia, iguanodonts, peirosaurids, and pterosaurs. The holotype was...
(2016). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Cretaceous Gondwanan theropods Megaraptor and Australovenator: the evidence afforded by their manual anatomy". Memoirs...
that of the megaraptoran Aerosteon. In a 2014 description of a juvenile Megaraptor specimen, the referral of Siats to Megaraptora was contested, and megaraptorans...
Mosasaurus Adrienne Carter as Kiera Chirostenotes Garry Chalk as Marco Megaraptor Shannon Chan-Kent as Allie Alamosaurus Allison Cohen as Carla Cretoxyrhina...
analysis found Eotyrannus to be a megaraptoran closely related to taxa like Megaraptor. However, a 2017 study stated that Eotyrannus was a stokesosaurid, while...
postorbital is almost identical to that of Aerosteon and the juvenile Megaraptor described in 2014 has teeth similar to those of Orkoraptor. Orkoraptor...
modified thumb claw would be misinterpreted; Noasaurus, Baryonyx, and Megaraptor are examples since the 1980s where an enlarged thumb claw was first put...
SRP 083. U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. "Oz dromaeosaurs(Re: Megaraptor)". Ostrom, J. (1974). "Archaeopteryx and the Origin of Flight". The Quarterly...
Agnolín; Martín D. Ezcurra; Ignacio A. Cerda (2014). "Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation". Cretaceous...
Agnolín; Martín D. Ezcurra; Ignacio A. Cerda (2014). "Juvenile specimen of Megaraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) sheds light about tyrannosauroid radiation". Cretaceous...
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