Dineobellator Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Skeleton reconstruction, featuring the known elements in white | |
Scientific 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
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Dineobellator (meaning Diné warrior, pronounced /dɪˌneɪoʊbəˈleɪtər/) 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]