Maip Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Known material (A), reconstruction of the thoracic cavity at level of sixth dorsal vertebra (B), and interpretative drawing of the excavation (C) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | †Megaraptora |
Family: | †Megaraptoridae |
Genus: | †Maip Rolando et al., 2022 |
Species: | †M. macrothorax
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Binomial name | |
†Maip macrothorax Rolando et al., 2022
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Maip is a genus of large megaraptorid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, M. macrothorax, known from an incomplete, disarticulated skeleton. Maip may represent the largest megaraptorid known from South America, and possibly the world.[1]