Austroraptor
| Austroraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Maxilla and dentary of the holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Subfamily: | †Unenlagiinae |
| Genus: | †Austroraptor Novas et al., 2008 |
| Species: | †A. cabazai
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| Binomial name | |
| †Austroraptor cabazai Novas et al., 2008
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Austroraptor (/ˌɔːstroʊˈræptər/ AW-stroh-RAP-tər) is a genus of unenlagiine theropod dinosaur that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.
Austroraptor was a large, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, measuring around 5–6 m (16–20 ft) long and weighing up to 300–520 kilograms (660–1,150 lb). It is one of the largest paravians known, with only large dromaeosaurids such as Achillobator and Utahraptor approaching a similar size.