Rapator
Rapator ornitholestoides
Pronounced:
Rap-ah-tore
Diet:
Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Name
Means:
"One Who
Raids"
Length:
26 feet
(8 m)
Height:
12 feet
( 3.8 m)
Weight:
1 ton
(450
kilos)
Time:
Early
Cretaceous
- 110
mya
Fossil remains for this
Dinosaur have been found in
Australia
Rapator was a large meat-eater from Australia - maybe. To date, only one hand bone has been found, but it is enough for scientists to determine the basic type of dinosaur from which the bone came. This is a good example of how a little clue can provide a lot of information. Rapator was probably about as large as Allosaurus but it isn't known if they were related.
Australia
is not known
for its
dinosaur
discoveries,
so Rapator
represents a
rare and
interesting
bit of
prehistory.
It has been
suggested
that Rapator
was a large
ornitholestid,
a carnosaur,
or even a
very large
bird-like
dinosaur.
Some have
envisioned
this
creature as
feathered
and
belonging to
the
alvarezsauria. |
