Dineobellator

Dineobellator
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70.6–66 Ma
Skeleton reconstruction, featuring the known elements in white
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Clade: Eudromaeosauria
Genus: Dineobellator
Jasinski et al. 2020
Type species
Dineobellator notohesperus
Jasinski et al. 2020

Dineobellator (meaning Diné warrior, pronounced /dɪˌnbəˈltər/) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period 68 million years ago.[1] The remains have been found in the Maastrichtian stage of the Naashoibito Member at the Ojo Alamo Formation, New Mexico.[2]

  1. ^ Gramling, Carolyn (26 March 2020). "Fossils of a new dromaeosaur date to the end of the Age of Dinosaurs". Science News.
  2. ^ Jasinski, Steven E.; Sullivan, Robert M.; Dodson, Peter (December 2020). "New Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from New Mexico and Biodiversity of Dromaeosaurids at the end of the Cretaceous". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 5105. Bibcode:2020NatSR..10.5105J. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61480-7. PMC 7099077. PMID 32218481. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.