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sharp-clawed runner
Condorraptor
Say it like this: “CON-dohr-RAP-tuh”
Condorraptor currumili
Condorraptor ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic (Toarcian · Aalenian) · roughly 184.2 to 170.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2005 · Rauhut, O. W. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 4.5 m · 15 ft
- Weight
- 200 kg · 441 lb
- Found in
- Argentina · Cañadón Asfalto
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Piatnitzkysauridae
The story in short
Condorraptor was formally named in 2005 by O. W. M. Rauhut. The name means “robber from Cerro Condor.”
It lived in the Early Jurassic · Middle Jurassic (Toarcian · Aalenian), roughly 184.2 to 170.9 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Cañadón Asfalto Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Condorraptor at a length near 4.5 m and a body mass around 200 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Piatnitzkysauridae, among the theropod dinosaurs.