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Another work. I drew it together with the Majungasaurus portrait. This is another theropod that has not yet been noted in my gallery (with the exception of the sketch for the Dinovember) - the unenlagiid Buitreraptor gonzalezorum from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.

Buitreraptor is one of several South American maniraptors from the Unenlagiidae group*. It was described in 2005 from the Cenomanian-Turonian rocks of the Candeleros formation (yes, it could have met a Giganotosaurus). The holotype consists of a partial skeleton with a partial skull, later other specimens were found. In 2017-2018, the paleontological world saw three detailed descriptions of the Buitreraptor material, and now it is one of the most studied representatives of the group. The name of the taxon translates as "vulture robber", which is a reference to the La Buitrera location, where all the specimens were found.

The Buitreraptor was 1.5 m in length - less than a Velociraptor. The animal had elongated proportions: the muzzle, neck, trunk and legs were elongated. The bones of the forelimbs were long and very thin. The long jaws were armed with numerous small teeth devoid of serrations, the sickle-claw was also reduced. This suggests that the Buitreraptor hunted relatively small but slippery prey, such as snakes and fish.

This Buitreraptor stands on an inclined tree trunk and tries to scratch his "face". In the process, a skeletal reconstruction by Scott Hartman was used: www.skeletaldrawing.com/therop… . To make the image more interesting, I drew ear-like feathers and "eyebrows", underlined by the pattern. I also made a stylized forest that is reflected on the surface of the lake. I hope it turned out well.

Black ballpoint pen, gray and black colored pencils, 2021.

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* This clade is usually considered as a subfamily outside the Dromaeosauridae (Unenlagiinae). But some studies have questioned these conclusions. Thus, Motta et al. (2020) consider the unenlagiids as a sister group of avialans.

Description
Another work. I drew it together with the Majungasaurus portrait. This is another theropod that has not yet been noted in my gallery (with the exception of the sketch for the Dinovember) - the unenlagiid Buitreraptor gonzalezorum from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina.

Buitreraptor is one of several South American maniraptors from the Unenlagiidae group*. It was described in 2005 from the Cenomanian-Turonian rocks of the Candeleros formation (yes, it could have met a Giganotosaurus). The holotype consists of a partial skeleton with a partial skull, later other specimens were found. In 2017-2018, the paleontological world saw three detailed descriptions of the Buitreraptor material, and now it is one of the most studied representatives of the group. The name of the taxon translates as "vulture robber", which is a reference to the La Buitrera location, where all the specimens were found.

The Buitreraptor was 1.5 m in length - less than a Velociraptor. The animal had elongated proportions: the muzzle, neck, trunk and legs were elongated. The bones of the forelimbs were long and very thin. The long jaws were armed with numerous small teeth devoid of serrations, the sickle-claw was also reduced. This suggests that the Buitreraptor hunted relatively small but slippery prey, such as snakes and fish.

This Buitreraptor stands on an inclined tree trunk and tries to scratch his "face". In the process, a skeletal reconstruction by Scott Hartman was used: www.skeletaldrawing.com/therop… . To make the image more interesting, I drew ear-like feathers and "eyebrows", underlined by the pattern. I also made a stylized forest that is reflected on the surface of the lake. I hope it turned out well.

Black ballpoint pen, gray and black colored pencils, 2021.

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* This clade is usually considered as a subfamily outside the Dromaeosauridae (Unenlagiinae). But some studies have questioned these conclusions. Thus, Motta et al. (2020) consider the unenlagiids as a sister group of avialans.