恐龍卡第 1876 張，共 2 027 張

Variraptor

名字的意思： “Var thief”1

吃：肉迅猛龍類白堊紀晚期

Variraptor was a small, fast meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now France. It was a dromaeosaur, a cousin of Velociraptor, and probably hunted with sharp claws on its feet and hands.1

生存年代

84 到 66 百萬年前3

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Grès à Reptiles Formation, near Fox-Amphoux, Provence, southern France1

最高速度

時速約 43 公里（27 英里）

跑步, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Variraptor 時速約 43 公里 (27 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

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

Variraptor 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Variraptor 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

迷思破解王

迷思： Variraptor is definitely a valid dinosaur species.

真相： 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

給恐龍專家

學名: Variraptor
命名者: Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 19983
類群: 迅猛龍類
科 / 演化支: Dromaeosauridae3
分類: Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae3
岩石的年代: 84 到 66 百萬年 (Campanian / Maastrichtian)3
岩層: Grès à Reptiles, Marnes Rouges Inférieures3
國家: 法國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 3 筆3
發現: 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
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if Variraptor is a valid genus or if its fossils actually belong to more than one dinosaur species.1