Velociraptor built it, and then they discovered it. That still boggles my mind." Spielberg was particularly pleased with the discovery of the "Utahraptor" because of the boost it gave to the velociraptors in his film. Spielberg's name was briefly considered for naming of the new dinosaur. In reality, "Velociraptor", like many other maniraptoran theropods, was covered in feathers. Velociraptor Velociraptor (; meaning "swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in
Unaysaurus and walked on two legs. It was only long, tall, and weighed about ). Upon its description, "Unaysaurus" was assigned to the Plateosauridae. Under this assignment, the closest relative of "Unaysaurus" was, counter intuitively, not from South America, but rather "Plateosaurus", which lived about 210 million years ago in Germany. However, in 2018, "Unaysaurus" was found to belong to the newly erected clade Unaysauridae, alongside "Macrocollum" and "Jaklapallisaurus", the former of which was from Brazil. "Staurikosaurus", another early dinosaur, has been discovered nearby, and it is possible that "Teyuwasu", another Brazilian dinosaur described in 1999, is also a plateosaurid or