Pyroraptor

Pyroraptor Temporal range: Late Cretaceous 70.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Figured material of Pyroraptor restored as a generalized dromaeosaurid and an unenlagiine
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Dromaeosauridae
Genus:	†Pyroraptor Allain & Taquet, 2000
Species:	†P. olympius
Binomial name
†Pyroraptor olympius Allain & Taquet, 2000

Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France and northern Spain. It lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 70.6 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992, after a forest fire. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.