Saurornitholestes

Saurornitholestes
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6–68 Ma [1]Possible Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary record[2]
Skeletal reconstruction of S. langstoni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Dromaeosauridae
Clade: †Eudromaeosauria
Subfamily: †Saurornitholestinae
Genus: †Saurornitholestes
Sues, 1978
Type species
†Saurornitholestes langstoni
Sues, 1978
Other species
  • †S. sullivani
    Jasinski, 2015
Synonyms

Saurornitholestes ("lizard-bird thief") is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Canada (Alberta) and the United States (Montana, New Mexico, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina).

Two species have been named: Saurornitholestes langstoni in 1978 and Saurornitholestes sullivani in 2015. Saurornitholestes was a small bipedal meat-eating dinosaur, equipped with a sickle-claw on the foot.

  1. ^ "Jack's Birthday Site, MOR TM-068 (bone layer) (Cretaceous of the United States)". PBDB.org.
  2. ^ "TAKING COUNT: A Census of Dinosaur Fossils Recovered From the Hell Creek and Lance Formations (Maastrichtian)". The Journal of Paleontological Sciences.