Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Therizinosauridae

Full reference: J. I. Kirkland and D. G. Wolfe. 2001. First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):410-414

Belongs to Nothronychus according to H. Pu et al. 2013

See also Clark et al. 2004, Kirkland et al. 2005, Kirkland and Wolfe 2001, Li 2008, Li et al. 2007, Qian et al. 2012, Rauhut 2003, Suarez et al. 2007, Zanno 2010, Zanno 2010, Zanno et al. 2009 and Zanno et al. 2013

Sister taxon: Nothronychus graffami

Type specimen: MSM P-2117, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Haystack Butte, MSM 98-78, which is in a Turonian wet floodplain claystone in the Moreno Hill Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Haystack Butte, MSM 98-78

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