What is Buitreraptor?
{{italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]],<br>~{{fossilrange|98|97}} | image = Reconstrucción Buitreraptor gonzalezorum.jpg | image_caption = Reconstructed skeleton of the holotype MPCA 245 at the [[Carlos Ameghino Provincial Museum]] | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Buitreraptor | authority = Makovicky ''et al.'' [[2005 in paleontology|2005]] | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Buitreraptor gonzalezorum''''' | type_species_authority = Makovicky ''et al.'' 2005 }} [[File:Buitreraptor-Deinonychus.jpg|thumb|''Buitreraptor'' (front) and ''[[Deinonychus]]'' (behind) at the [[Field Museum of Natural History]]]] '''''Buitreraptor''''' is a small [[dromaeosaur]] from the [[Cretaceous]] of [[Argentina]]. It was about four to five feet long (1.5 metres).<ref>Paul G.S. 2010. ''The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs''. Princeton University Press, 139.</ref> ''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.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gianechini F.A. |author2=Makovicky P.J|author3=Apesteguía S.|year=2011 |title=The teeth of the unenlagiine theropod ''Buitreraptor'' from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina, and the unusual dentition of the Gondwanan dromaeosaurids |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=279–290 |url= |doi= 10.4202/app.2009.0127|pmid= |pmc= |s2cid=62811731}}</ref> 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. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Dromaeosauridae]] [[Category:Dinosaurs of South America]] [[Category:Cretaceous dinosaurs]]