Utahraptor (Primordial Tyrants)

Utahraptor is the largest known Dromaeosaur from the early Cretaceous period, Utah, USA. Modded into Path of Titans by the Primordial Tyrants Team.

Description

Utahraptor is a stocky large Dromaeosaur approximately 5 meters long with a large powerful skull and large arms. It's signature toe-claw is smaller than other Dromaeosaurs due to it's greater reliable on it's powerful jaws.

Paleo Info

Utahraptor ( YOU-tah-RAP-tor ) (meaning "Utah's predator") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous period (around 135 to 130 million years ago). It was a heavily built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore. It contains a single species, Utahraptor ostrommaysi, which is the largest-known member of the family Dromaeosauridae, measuring around 5 meters long and weighing 500kg.

The genus was described in 1993 by an American paleontologist James Kirkland and colleagues with the type species Utahraptor ostrommaysi, based on fossils that had been unearthed earlier from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. Later, many additional specimens were described including those from the skull and postcranium in addition to those of younger individuals.

Although feathers have never been found in association with Utahraptor specimens, there is strong phylogenetic evidence suggesting that all dromaeosaurids had them. The genus Microraptor is one of the oldest-known dromaeosaurids and is phylo­genetically more primitive than Utahraptor.

Since Microraptor and other dromaeosaurids possessed feathers, it is reasonable to assume that this trait was present in all of Dromaeosauridae. Feathers were very unlikely to have evolved more than once, so assuming that any given dromaeosaurid, such as Utahraptor, lacked feathers would require positive evidence that they did not have them. So far, there is nothing to suggest that feathers were lost in larger, more derived species of dromaeosaurs. The presence of quill knobs in Dakotaraptor evidenced that even larger dromaeosaurids had feathers.

Abilities

Slot	Icon	Name	Description	Cost
Head		Bite	Causes medium damage	FREE
Senses		Fleeting Crouch	Crouching for 2.5 seconds will grant increased stamina recovery until uncrouching. Able to move while crouched	1,000
Metabolism		Scavanger	Can eat meat, fish and bones. Fast food and water drain	1,500
Metabolism		Hyper Carnivore	Only able to eat meat, food drains much slower	FREE
Hide		Thick Scales	Increased defense and turning radius at cost of speed	1,200
Hide		Hide	Standard stats with no positive or negative traits	FREE
Hide		Dash Runner	Increases speed at the cost of turn radius and incoming damage	1,200
Legs		Pounce	Leaping attack that does high damage and bleed	1,500
Legs		Back Dodge	Dodge backwards to bait abilities	1,200
Voice		Standard	Standard stats with no positive or negative traits	FREE
Voice		Speed	+5% speed, -10% defense	FREE
Voice		Defense	+10% defense, -5% soeed	FREE
Voice		bark	Increases the attack of all raptors in your group for 30 meters for 15 seconds. Able to stack up to 10 times	700