Atrociraptor marshalli Currie and Varricchio 2004 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae

Full reference: P. J. Currie and D. J. Varricchio. 2004. A new dromaeosaurid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada. Feathered Dragons. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 112-132

Belongs to Atrociraptor according to D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie 2013

See also Bell and Currie 2016, Currie and Koppelhus 2015, Currie and Varricchio 2004, DePalma et al. 2015, Godefroit et al. 2008, Longrich 2008, Longrich and Currie 2009 and Williamson and Brusatte 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMP 95.166.1, a partial skull. Its type locality is 5 km west of Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone/sandstone in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Canada.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (6: Alberta collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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