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Pamparaptor micros

Pamparaptor is derived from "Pampa" (in honour of the Indian Pampas that lived in the central plains of Argentina) and the Latin "raptor" (plunderer, robber, snatcher or thief).
The species epithet, micros, means "small" in Latin. The remains of Pamparaptor were discovered in the Portezuelo Formation (Río Neuquén Subgroup, Neuquén Group) at Baal Quarry on the north coast of Barreales Lake, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina, by Diego Rosales, a technician for the Lake Barreales Paleontological Center (CePaLB) at the National University of Comahue, in 2005. The giant lognkosaurian titanosaur Futalognkosaurus dukei, the dromaeosaurids Unenlagia comahuensis, Unenlagia paynemili, and Neuquenraptor argentinus, the alvarezsaurid Patagonykus puertai, the megaraptorid Megaraptor namuhnuaiquii, as well as abelisaurid remains, undescribed theropods, and fragmentary remains of a possible neornithine bird, all hail from this formation. The holotype (MUCPv-1163) is a mostly complete and fully articulated left foot, including the characteristic deinonychosaurian second toe "killing claw", but also the small size and the slender structure typical of troodontids. In 2007, Porfiri et al. referred to this specimen as a subadult version of Neuquenraptor which is known from the same area, but that was before it was fully prepared out of the feature-obscuring rock matrix. The Centro Paleontológico Lago Barreales team.