Valdoraptor (meaning "Wealden plunderer") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous.
In 1858 Richard Owen referred a fossil consisting of a set of three metatarsals, foot bones, part of the collection of the British Museum of Natural History, to the herbivorous dinosaur genus Hylaeosaurus because of its size and bone texture.
By 1881 John Whitaker Hulke had recognised that the specimen represented a foot from a carnivorous theropod.
[6] However, Darren Naish in 2007 concluded that the specimen showed two unique derived traits or autapomorphies, in that the second metatarsal is both mediolaterally compressed and features a prominent dorsolateral ridge.
[7] Olshevsky assigned Valdoraptor to the Allosauridae but Naish in 2007 stated that no more precise determination was possible than the more general Tetanurae.