page_title: Murusraptor
section_title: Discovery and naming
hierarchical_section_title: Murusraptor / Discovery and naming
caption_attribution_description: Location and geological context of the holotypeof Murusraptor barrosaensis, MCF-PVPH-411. A) Star marks collecting locality of holotype. B) Stratigraphic table and geologic section indicating the provenance of the megaraptorins recorded in the Neuquén group (modified from [41]).
context_page_description: Murusraptor is a genus of carnivorous megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Sierra Barrosa Formation, part of the Neuquén Group of Patagonia, in Argentina, South America. It is known from a single specimen that consists of a partial skull, ribs, partial pelvis, leg and other assorted skeletal elements.
context_section_description: In 2001, Sergio Saldivia, preparator at the Museo Carmen Funes, thirty kilometres northeast of Plaza Huincul in a canyon wall discovered the skeleton of a theropod dinosaur new to science. During that year and 2002 the remains were secured.
  In 2016, the type species Murusraptor barrosaensis was named and described by Rodolfo Anibal Coria and Philip John Currie. The generic name is a combination  of the Latin murus, "wall", a reference to the canyon wall, and raptor, "seizer". The specific name refers to the provenance from the Sierra Barrosa.
  The holotype, MCF-PVPH-411, was found in a layer of the Sierra Barrossa Formation dating from the Coniacian. It consists of a partial skeleton with skull, of an immature individual. The skeletal elements recovered for this type specimen of Murusraptor include a partial skull consisting of a complete braincase with frontals and parietals, right lacrimal, prefrontal, postorbital, quadrate, pterygoid, epipterygoid and ectopterygoid, thirty-one teeth, the rear elements of the right lower jaw, twelve vertebrae from the back, sacrum and tail, eleven thoracic ribs, a single haemal arch or chevron bone, several gastralia, a third manual ungual, complete left ilium, part of a right ilium, proximal ends of both pubic bones, distal ends of the ischia, the right tibia, and a calcaneum.
caption: Location where the holotype was found and geological context
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