Pyroraptor was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period. The type species is P. olympius. Pyroraptor may be the same as Variraptor (another recent find from France).

Other Fossils Found in France
(Including dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and ichthyosaurs; * = not a dinosaur.)
Aepisasaurus, Compsognathus, Dacentrurus, Erectopus, Grallator, Hypselosaurus, Lexovisaurus, Liopleurodon*, Megalosaurus, Morinosaurus, Muraenosaurus*, Neosodon, Nqwebasaurus, Opthalmosaurus*, Pelorosaurus, Pistosaurus*, Piveteausaurus, Plateosaurus, Poekilopleuron, Pterodactylus*, Pyroraptor, Rhabdodon, Tarascosaurus, Telmatosaurus, Teinurosaurus, Variraptor.

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Pages on close relatives, Deinonychus, Utahraptor, and Velociraptor.

All about the raptors, the dromaeosaurids.

The meat-eating dinosaurs, the theropods, and dinosaur diets.

Creatures and climate of the Cretaceous period.

Other fossils found in France and Europe.