The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America

Citation

Makovicky, P. J.; Apesteguía, S.; Agnolín, F. L. (2005). The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America. Nature 437(7061): 1007-1011. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/nature03996

Names first published here

• Buitreraptor genus
• Buitreraptor gonzalezorum species

Cited by genera

• Buitreraptor
• Neuquenraptor

  Suggested Neuquenraptor and Unenlagia may be congeneric.

• Rahonavis

  Recovered Rahonavis as a dromaeosaurid unenlagiine in their phylogenetic analysis.

Cited by clades

• Unenlagiinae

  Described Buitreraptor and placed Bonaparte's family as the subfamily Unenlagiinae within Dromaeosauridae.