Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is an extinct genus of paravian dinosaur, probably a dromaeosaurid or unenlagiid, from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican island, of what is now southern France.

The first dromaeosaurid fossils found in France were those of Variraptor mechinorum, described by Jean Le Lœuff and Eric Buffetaut.

[4] In a 2009 description of new dromaeosaurid remains assigned to Variraptor mechinorum, Phornphen Chanthasit and Eric Buffetaut addressed the claims of Allain & Taquet by mentioning that the original description of Variraptor mechinorum very clearly distinguished the holotype from any referred material and argue that some of the material very clearly belongs to the same individual while also elucidating that the situation with Pyroraptor is quite similar.

[10] Troodontidae Mahakala Pyroraptor Austroraptor Unenlagia Shanag Microraptor Sinornithosaurus Graciliraptor Tianyuraptor Hesperonychus Rahonavis Buitreraptor Dromaeosaurus Atrociraptor Utahraptor Achillobator Bambiraptor Tsaagan Saurornitholestes Deinonychus Velociraptor Adasaurus Balaur In the 2019 description of Hesperornithoides, a phylogeny tree found Pyroraptor to be an unenlagiine.

The study noted that this is biostratigraphically and geographically consistent with Cretaceous Europe showing a trend of hosting typically Gondwanan species.

Mahakala Ningyuansaurus Austroraptor Buitreraptor Pyroraptor Pamparaptor Rahonavis Dakotaraptor Unenlagia sensu lato Troodontidae Dromaeosauridae

[5] The 2022 description of Vectiraptor greeni noted that the foot morphology of Pyroraptor olympius had more similarities with unenlagiines than with eudromaeosaurs, lending support to the idea that European raptors were closely related to Southern forms from Africa and South America.

[3] During the initial description of Pyroraptor olympius, the suggested model of dromaeosaurid evolution proposed that the dromaeosaurs originated from North America or Euro-America, and then dispersed into Asia.

During the Late Cretaceous, it was one part of the island landmass known as Ibero-Armorica, formed from what is today Southern France and Northern Spain in the Tethys Ocean.

[19] At that time, Pyroraptor would have coexisted alongside a variety of species such as Zalmoxes, Rhabdodon priscus, Ampelosaurus atacis, Lirainosaurus astibiae, Atsinganosaurus velauciensis, some undescribed titanosaurids, Arcovenator escotae, Tarascosaurus salluvicus, Struthiosaurus sp., Variraptor mechanorum, Gargantuavis philoinos, Martinaves cruzyensis, and non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaurs Azhdarcho lancicollis and Hatzegopteryx thambema, the crocodylomorphs Musturzabalsuchus buffetauti, Massaliasuchus, and Allodaposuchus, the turtles Dortoka, and Solemydid turtles, zhelestid eutherians, palaeobatrachid anurans, batrachosauroidid urodeles, amphisbaenian and/or anguid squamates, and derived alethinophidian snakes.