Apatoraptor
Sign in to saveApatoraptor (meaning "deceptive thief") is a genus of caenagnathid dinosaur which contains a single species, A. pennatus. The only known specimen was discovered in the Campanian-aged Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta.
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It is catalogued under topics including Caenagnathidae, Campanian dinosaurs and Dinosaur genera.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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Apatoraptor (meaning "deceptive thief") is a genus of caenagnathid dinosaur which contains a single species, A. pennatus. The only known specimen was discovered in the Campanian-aged Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta.
==Discovery== left|thumb|Life reconstruction of Apatoraptor pennatus In 1993, at Drumheller in Alberta, three kilometres west of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, a skeleton was found of a theropod. As it was initially identified as some unimportant ornithomimid specimen, preparation only started in 2002 and was almost immediately discontinued when no skull was thought to be present, the fossil again being covered in plaster. In 2008, research was resumed, and only then was it discovered that the fossil represented a species new to science.
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