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VARIRAPTOR
(varr-i-rap-tor)
meaning: "Hunter from Var"
Variraptor
Named By: Le Loeuff & Buffetaut in 1998
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Location: France, Gres a Reptiles formation
Size: Approximately 2 meters long
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Incomplete remains including, vertebra, sacrum, ilium, humerus. Other bones have been attributed including a femur, though some have doubts as to their validity for inclusion
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauridae | Saurischia | Theropoda | Dromaeosauridae |
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Variraptor ( VARR-i-rap-tor; "Var thief") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of France.

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