Alternative combination: Laelaps aquilunguis
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1866. [On the remains of a gigantic extinct dinosaur, from the Cretaceous Green Sand of New Jersey]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18:275-279
Belongs to Dryptosaurus according to S. G. Dalman et al. 2017
See also Baird and Horner 1977, Baird and Horner 1979, Brownstein 2018, Brownstein 2019, Brownstein 2021, Cannon 1906, Carr et al. 2017, Carr et al. 2011, Charig 1967, Cope 1866, Cope 1867, Cope 1867, Cope 1867, Cope 1868, Cope 1869, Cope 1869, Cope 1870, Cope 1875, Cope 1875, Cope 1876, Depéret 1896, Depéret and Savornin 1925, Depéret and Savornin 1928, Elzanowski and Wellnhofer 1993, Gallagher 1984, Gauthier 1986, Gilmore 1921, Gilmore 1946, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Holtz 1998, Holtz 2004, Huene 1923, Huene 1926, Huene 1927, Kuhn 1939, Lambe 1904, Lambe 1905, Leidy 1868, Lydekker 1888, Marsh 1877, McDonald et al. 2018, Miller 1962, Miller 1955, Molnar 1974, Molnar 1980, Molnar and Pledge 1980, Nopcsa 1901, Paul 1988, Rapp 1944, Russell 1930, Schwimmer and Best 1989, Steel 1970, Stromer 1931, Thomson et al. 2013, Weishampel 2006, Woodward 1885, Yun 2017 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: ANSP 9995, a partial skeleton (mandible, clavicles, both humeri, femur, tibia, fibula, phalanges, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae). Its type locality is West Jersey Marl Company's Pit, Barnsboro (New Egypt), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone/marl in the New Egypt Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): femur circumference 279.4, fibula circumference 270.0, humerus circumference 136.5, tibia circumference 258.0
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: New Jersey collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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