In Depth
Siamraptor is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the early Cretaceous. The holotype individual of Siamraptor is only known from a partial skull, jawbone and a few post cranial bones, so precise details or any unusual features if they existed, are still unknown. These scattered bones however do indicate that the holotype individual of Siamraptor was at least what would be considered a medium sized carcharodontosaurid dinosaur.
As a carcharodontosaurid dinosaur, Siamraptor would have been a large predator, probably with teeth adapted more for slicing flesh as opposed to crunching through bone. Siamraptor might have hunted plant eating iguanodontid dinosaurs since numerous remains of these kinds of dinosaurs are known from Khok Kruat Formation. These include the genera Sirindhorna, Ratchasimasaurus and the similarly named Siamodon.
Further Reading
- A new carcharodontosaurian theropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand. - PLOS ONE. 14 (10). - Duangsuda Chokchaloemwong, Soki Hattori, Elena Cuesta, Pratueng Jintasakul, Masateru Shibata & Yoichi Azuma - 2019 (Jun Liu (ed.).
