| Hesperonychus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| UALVP 48778, holotype pelvis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Pennaraptora |
| Clade: | Paraves |
| Genus: | †Hesperonychus Longrich & Currie, 2009 |
| Species: | †H. elizabethae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hesperonychus elizabethae Longrich & Currie, 2009
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Hesperonychus (meaning "western claw") is a genus of small paravian theropod dinosaur. It may be a dromaeosaurid or an avialan. There is one described species, Hesperonychus elizabethae. The type species was named in honor of Dr. Elizabeth Nicholls of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology who collected it as a student in 1982.[1] It is known from fossils recovered from the Dinosaur Park Formation and possibly from the uppermost strata of the Oldman Formation of Alberta, dating to the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous around 75 million years ago.[2]
- ^ Alberta researchers discover mini meat-eating dinosaur, a 16 March 2009 article from CBC News
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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