Hairy Museum of Natural History

Austroraptor cabazai

Austroraptor attacking a sauropod
From National Geographic News
Artist: Rodrigo Vega

New Dinosaur: Austroraptor cabazai
Name Means: Cabaza’s South American Thief (Héctor Cabaza founded the Museo Municipal de Lamarque)
Relations: Dromaeosaurid Theropod
Holotype: MML-195, partial skeleton including pieces of the skull, vertebral column, forelimb and leg
Location: Rio Negro Province, Argentina
Age: Late Cretaceous, ~70,000,000 years old
Length: ~5 meters (16 feet)
Weight: ~368 kilograms (810 lbs)
Reference: Novas, F. E., Pol, D., Canale, J. I., Profiri, J. D., Calvo, Jorge O., 2008. A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published early online 17.12.2008. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1554.
Elsewhere on the web:
- National Geographic News: “Bizarre” New Dinosaur: Giant Raptor found in Argentina
- The Dragon’s Tales: Austroraptor cabazai, a Short-Armed Dromaeosaurid & Austroraptor Rendition and More Details
- Theropoda: Austroraptor a dromeosaurio “spinosauro-mime”
- Palaeoblog: Austroraptor cabazai: New Gondwanan Dromaeosaurid

—Matt Celeskey.

Stefania Felguer, on December 19th, 2008 at 1:00 pm Said:

The artists name is Rodrigo Vega.
Matt Celeskey, on December 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm Said:

Thank’s Stefania! It is a dynamic illustration – do you know if Rodrigo has more work online?
Zach Miller, on December 19th, 2008 at 5:26 pm Said:

I’m starting to think we should call the Dromaeosauridae the “Dromaeosauria.” The group is just so diverse nowadays!