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sharp-clawed runner
Bambiraptor
Say it like this: “BAM-bee-RAP-tor”
Bambiraptor feinbergi
Bambiraptor ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United States.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2000 · Burnham, D. A.; Derstler, K. L.; Currie, P. J.; Bakker, R. T.; Zhou, Z.; Ostrom, J. H.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- 2 kg · 4 lb
- Found in
- the United States · Two Medicine
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Eudromaeosauria
The story in short
In 2000, D. A. Burnham and colleagues published the name Bambiraptor. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from the United States, including the Two Medicine Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Bambiraptor at a length near 1 m and a body mass around 2 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Eudromaeosauria, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acheroraptor
Acheroraptor temertyorum
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Boreonykus
Boreonykus certekorum
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Deinonychus
Deinonychus antirrhopus
Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian) · roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago