| Martharaptor Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Vertebrae (A-G), possible forelimb bones (H-I), a scapula (J-K), and pelvic bones (L-M) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Therizinosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Therizinosauroidea |
| Genus: | †Martharaptor Senter et al., 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Martharaptor greenriverensis Senter et al., 2012
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Martharaptor is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah. They can be distinguished from other therizinosauroids by means of several features of the skeleton (particularly the hands and feet) which were intermediate between early therizinosaurs such as Falcarius and Beipiaosaurus, and more "advanced" members of the group like therizinosaurids. The deep and homogeneous hand claws clearly differ from the case in early therizinosauroids, but the foot has not yet acquired the robust morphology of therizinosaurids.
- ^ Joeckel, R. M.; Ludvigson, G. A.; Möller, A.; Hotton, C. L.; Suarez, M. B.; Suarez, C. A.; Sames, B.; Kirkland, J. I.; Hendrix, B. (2020). "Chronostratigraphy and terrestrial palaeoclimatology of Berriasian–Hauterivian strata of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 498 (1): 75–100. Bibcode:2020GSLSP.498...75J. doi:10.1144/SP498-2018-133. S2CID 210296827.