Tachiraptor admirabilis

PALEOFAUNA OF VENEZUELA. The first Carnivorous Dinosaur in the country. More info: @jp.sitev

Clarifications: The discovery and official information about this species date back to 2014. Current research could be subject to change. But they are solidly founded by international and national paleontologists.

Discovered in the Venezuelan Andes region, by a team of international and IVIC experts, led by the Venezuelan paleontologist Ascanio D. Rincon, Andrés Solórzano, Max C. Langer, etc. Tachiraptor admirabilis was a type of theropod dinosaur that lived at the beginning of the Jurassic period (Hettangian), near what is now the city of La Grita, (celebrated by the church of Santo Cristo de la Grita), state Táchira.

The #fossil is mainly composed of a right tibia and a left ischium, joining dental samples of #theropod discovered years before (possibly of the same species). Despite its name (admirable raptor of Táchira), it is not related to the dromaeosaurs (raptors), since the material and comparative elements relate the Tachiraptor to the group of Neotheropods, like dilophosaurus and cryolophosaurus, which it preceded. , which is why it is considered a possible "basal dilophosaurid".

It was a #predator somewhat longer than a modern dog, which by comparative anatomy is estimated to have dimensions between one and a half meters to nearly 2 meters long. It probably lived alone or in very small groups and will use its agility to hunt small animals or other dinosaurs similar to Laquintasaura venezuelae.

#original research: Dr Ascanio D. Rincon. IVIC, A. Solorzano. 2014 - #Theropod teeth in #Venezuela Dr J. M. Moody. 1997.

Illustration and writing by Gerardo Guillen Poleo: @eldinogerardo

Video animated and edited by the Author, used as a presentation of the piece.

First full-scale recreation of the Tachiraptor made by Gerardo Guillen for the Caracas Science Museum, delivered after 2021 and reopened in 2023, Comission.

Photos of the piece 1st recreation by Geardo Guillen.

More Photos of the piece 1st recreation.

2nd sculpture of the Tachiraptor made for public events and symposiums.

2nd sculpture of the Tachiraptor made for public events and symposiums, left the Author: Gerardo Guillen, bottom right: another life-size recreation of Laquintasaura venezuelae (by the same Author).

Photos of the piece and its Author.

Exhibition of the Tachiraptor admirabilis at the Caracas Science Museum. Photos by G. Andres Milano Gallardo.

Reopening of the biome of the Tachira theropod dinosaur. In the size comparison photo with a friend of the Author.

Part of the step by step and Author's logo.

Tachiraptor admirabilis - File

Fossil material of the animal. Clarification: The teeth in the infographic are not 100% attributable to T. admirabilis.

Previous illustration made in 2014 by the same Author, (note the absence of feathers in it).

Step by step of the recreation of the animal and its environment, manual and digital illustration.