Dinosaurs · Small theropod
Buitreraptor
Say it bwee-tree-rap-tor. The name means ‘Buitrera (vulture roost) plunderer’.
- Length
- 1.3 m
- Diet
- Meat-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous99 to 90 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Makovicky, Apesteguía & Agnolin (2005)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Dromaeosauridae › Unenlagiinae
Small theropods. Small two-legged dinosaurs, many feathered, the group that includes birds. See all 60
Lived at the same time
- Mapusaurus · same country
- Giganotosaurus · same country
- Unenlagia · same country
- Argentinosaurus · same country
- Chubutisaurus · same country
- Ligabuesaurus · same country
- Achillobator
- Erlikosaurus
Other small theropods
- Erlikosaurus Late Cretaceous
- Archaeornithomimus Late Cretaceous
- Urbacodon Late Cretaceous
- Unenlagia Late Cretaceous
- Alvarezsaurus Late Cretaceous
- Oviraptor Late Cretaceous
- Saurornithoides Late Cretaceous
- Bambiraptor Late Cretaceous
Source: Buitreraptor in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.