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Unenlagia
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Unenlagia is known from postcranial remains. The shoulder joint indicates a wide range of arm movements could be made. This may even have evolved from flying ancestors.
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- Pronounced
- oon-en-lahg-ee-ah
- Meaning of name
- half bird
- Length
- 2.4m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(94 - 86 million years ago) - Found in
- Argentina
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Avetherapoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauridae, Unenlagia
- Named by
- Novas and Puerta (1997)
- Type species
- comahuensis