Dinosaurs · Small theropod

Pyroraptor

Say it PIE-ro-rap-tor. The name means ‘fire thief’.

No length given in the museum's record.

The museum gives no length for this dinosaur, so we cannot draw it to scale.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of small theropods

Diet: Meat-eaterother animals
Walked: On 2 legs
When: Late Cretaceous84 to 71 million years ago
Fossils found in: France, Spain
Named by: Allain and Taquet (2000)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Dromaeosauridae

Where Pyroraptor sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Small theropods. Small two-legged dinosaurs, many feathered, the group that includes birds. See all 60

Lived at the same time

Telmatosaurus · same country
Struthiosaurus · same country
Rhabdodon · same country
Ampelosaurus · same country
Alectrosaurus
Anserimimus
Archaeornithomimus
Aucasaurus

Other small theropods

Bambiraptor Late Cretaceous
Borogovia Late Cretaceous
Masiakasaurus Late Cretaceous
Noasaurus Late Cretaceous
Oviraptor Late Cretaceous
Saurornithoides Late Cretaceous
Citipati Late Cretaceous
Conchoraptor Late Cretaceous

Source: Pyroraptor 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.