Austroraptor
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Austroraptor ( ) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.
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- Distinguishing traits
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- Paleobiology
- Paleoecology
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Austroraptor ( ) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.
Austroraptor was a large, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, measuring around long and weighing up to . It is one of the largest paravians known, with only large dromaeosaurids such as Achillobator and Utahraptor approaching a similar size.
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