page_title: Utahraptor
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Utahraptor / Classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of the hip bone of an adult Utahraptor. Español: Reconstrucción de la cadera de un Utahraptor adulto.
context_page_description: Utahraptor is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous period. It was a heavy-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore. It contains a single species, Utahraptor ostrommaysi, which is the largest-known member of the family Dromaeosauridae.
  In 2018, it was proposed that Utahraptor be the Utah state dinosaur, an act that was approved by the Senate. Initially Utahraptor would have replaced another dinosaur, Allosaurus, as the state's official fossil, but it was decided that Utahraptor would be another symbol of the state.
context_section_description: Utahraptor is a member of the family Dromaeosauridae, a clade of theropod dinosaurs commonly known as "raptors". Utahraptor is the largest genus in the family, and belongs to the same clade of dinosaurs such as Velociraptor, Deinonychus or Dromaeosaurus. It was is classified in the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae, which is found in the clade Eudromaeosauria.
  In 2015, Utahraptor was found to be closely related to the smaller Dromaeosaurus and the giant Mongolian and North American dromaeosaurid genera Achillobator and Dakotaraptor:
  The cladogram below is the result of a cladistic analysis conducted by Cau et al. in 2017.
caption: Restored pelvis
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