Zapsalis abradens Cope 1876 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1876. On some extinct reptiles and Batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills Beds of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 28:340-359

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

See also Cope 1876, Cope 1877, Currie and Koppelhus 2015, Estes 1964, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Kuhn 1939, Makovicky and Norell 2004, Matthew and Brown 1922, Steel 1970 and Williamson and Brusatte 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH 3953, a tooth

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Zapsalis abradens in the database

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