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Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 72 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.

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Parent taxon
Dromaeosauridae
Named after
fire
Image
Pyroraptor olympius reconstruction.png
Length
1.28
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Commons category
Pyroraptor
taxon rank
genus
main food source
carnivore
taxon name
Pyroraptor
location of discovery
France–Spain border
time period
Late Cretaceous
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