Reptilia - Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Full reference: D. C. Evans, D. W. Larson, and P. J. Currie. 2013. A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with Asian affinities from the latest Cretaceous of North America. Naturwissenshaften 100:1041-1049
Belongs to Acheroraptor according to D. C. Evans et al. 2013
See also Bell and Currie 2016, Brownstein 2019, Currie and Koppelhus 2015, DePalma et al. 2015, Goodwin and Evans 2016 and Jasinski et al. 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: ROM 63777, a maxilla (an almost complete right maxilla, missing only the posterior portion of the jugal ramus and an associated maxillary tooth complete with root). Its type locality is 45 km southwest of Jordan (NCD01), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana, South Dakota collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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