Buitreraptor

Buitreraptor is a small dromaeosaur from the Cretaceous of Argentina. It was about four to five feet long (1.5 metres).^[1]

Buitreraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, ~98–97 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Reconstructed skeleton of the holotype MPCA 245 at the Carlos Ameghino Provincial Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Unenlagiidae
Subfamily:	†Unenlagiinae
Genus:	†Buitreraptor Makovicky et al. 2005
Type species
†Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky et al. 2005

Buitreraptor (front) and Deinonychus (behind) at the Field Museum of Natural History

Buitreraptor has a slender, flat, extremely elongated snout. Its jaws have many small teeth which lack meat-tearing serrations or cutting edges. They are grooved, strongly recurved and flattened.^[2] This probably meant it ate quite small animals, like lizards and mammals.

Since its close relatives had feathers, it is likely that Buitreraptor also was feathered.