dragonlady_mothman Posted October 2, 2005 #1 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Pyroraptor A New Meat-Eating Dinosaur Found in France July 22, 2000 Pyroraptor is a newly-discovered meat-eating dinosaur. A very incomplete skeleton of this deinonychosaur (an advanced theropod) was found in France. Pyroraptor means "fire thief"; it was given this name because it was found after a forest fire. Pyroraptor was named by Allain and Taquet in 2000. Pyroraptor was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period. The type species is P. olympius. Pyroraptor may be the same as Variraptor (another recent find from France). source Anyone got any more information? Pictures? Artist's depictions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonlady_mothman Posted October 2, 2005 Author #2 Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) Pyroraptor Pyroraptor olympius Pronounced: Pie-row-Rap-tore Diet: Carnivore (meat-eater) Name Means: "Fire Raider" Length: unknown (small) Height: unknown Weight: unknown Time: Late Cretaceous - 76 MYA Pyroraptor is the first positively identified member of the raptor family found in Europe. This was a small, fast hunter that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. The specimen is known from only a few bones, but they are enough to give scientists a good idea of what this little dinosaur would have looked like. Some paleontologists believe it would have closely resembled the small, bird-like dinosaurs recently discovered in China. Pyroraptor was found associated with fossils representing a number of other creatures, including Rhabdodon, a nodosaur, a titanosaur, a ceratopsian and some Late Cretaceous reptiles. The origin of the dromaeosaurs has long been debated. A number of prominent scientists believe they originated in North America, possibly the area that was adjacent to Europe in the very Early Cretaceous. source Edited October 2, 2005 by dragonlady_mothman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indeed Posted October 2, 2005 #3 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonlady_mothman Posted October 2, 2005 Author #4 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Oh, thanks. He's pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solofront Posted October 2, 2005 #5 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Cool, kind of resembles an over-sized velociraptor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogfish Posted October 3, 2005 #6 Share Posted October 3, 2005 actualy Solofront, they are smaller... In Dinosaur Planet, they had a section on one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtterLord Posted October 9, 2005 #7 Share Posted October 9, 2005 (edited) http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=47476 Dragonlady, surely you remember this where we have a BIG picture of Pod. And this which I just found which has info on Pod if you look through it. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinos...dinoviewer.html Edited October 9, 2005 by OtterLord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeBean24 Posted October 14, 2005 #8 Share Posted October 14, 2005 raptors are very cool indeed, this is always interesting to read about a new discovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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