John (Not My Real Name) Dinosaur

(REQUESTED) MAIP

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]

The generic name, “Maip”, references a malicious being in Aonikenk mythology that is “the shadow of death” that “kills with cold wind.” The specific name, “macrothorax”, is derived from the Greek “makrós”, meaning “large”, and the Latin “thorax”, meaning “chest”, in reference to its large thoracic cavity.[1]