Dinosaurs · Large theropod

Utahraptor

Say it YOO-tah-RAP-tor. The name means ‘Utah plunderer’.

Utahraptor beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of large theropods

Length: 5.5 m
Weight: 350 kg
Diet: Meat-eaterother animals, including quite big plant-eating dinosaurs such as Hippodraco
Walked: On 2 legs
When: Early Cretaceous139 to 135 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Kirkland, Gaston and Burge (1993)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Dromaeosauridae

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

Large theropods. Big two-legged meat-eaters, such as Tyrannosaurus. See all 63

Lived at the same time

Other large theropods

Becklespinax Early Cretaceous
Afrovenator Early Cretaceous
Concavenator Early Cretaceous
Eotyrannus Early Cretaceous
Neovenator Early Cretaceous
Allosaurus Late Jurassic
Ceratosaurus Late Jurassic
Baryonyx Early Cretaceous

Source: Utahraptor 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.