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Variraptor was named after the Var River in southern France, plus the Latin word for thief.1
Its fossils were discovered by amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy between 1992 and 1995.1
The type specimens include a back vertebra, a sacrum (fused hip vertebrae), and a hip bone (ilium).1
Some scientists think Variraptor might be a chimaera, meaning its fossils could belong to more than one kind of dinosaur.1
A right upper arm bone (humerus) has a large deltopectoral crest, which suggests strong arm muscles for grabbing prey.1
Variraptor lived about 70 million years ago, during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous.1

Ku tas léeb yu dul dëgg
Léeb: Variraptor is definitely a valid dinosaur species.
Dëgg: Many scientists consider Variraptor a nomen dubium (doubtful name) because its incomplete fossils may not be unique enough to tell it apart from other dinosaurs.1
Ngir ñi xam dino lool
- Turu xam-xam
- Variraptor
- Ku ko tudde
- Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 19983
- Kurél
- Raptor yi
- Njaboot / klad
- Dromaeosauridae3
- Klasifikasiyoŋ
- Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae3
- Màggaayu doj yi
- 84 ba 66 milyoŋ at (Campanian / Maastrichtian)3
- Formasiyoŋi doj
- Grès à Reptiles, Marnes Rouges Inférieures3
- Réew yi
- Faraas3
- Fosil yu ñu gis
- 3 ci The Paleobiology Database3
- Gisees
- Variraptor was named in 1998 by French paleontologists Jean Le Loeuff and Eric Buffetaut, based on fossils found by Patrick and Annie Méchin in southern France.1
- Ñu ngi koy werante ba tey
- Scientists are not sure if Variraptor is a valid genus or if its fossils actually belong to more than one dinosaur species.1
Fa xibaar yi jóge
- Variraptor (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Variraptor in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): at, béréb yi, formasiyoŋi doj, klasifikasiyoŋ.
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