Describer

Parks, 1933

Time

Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian

Classification

Saurischia Theropoda Tetanurae Coelurosauria Oviraptorosauria Caenagnathidae

Diet

Carnivore

Fossilsite

Judith River Group (Wedge), Alberta, Canada; Hell Creek Formation, Montana, US

Fall Under

Chirostenotes

Length

3-4 meter

Info

Chirostenotes (Gilmore, 1924) > Chirostenotes pergracilis (Gilmore, 1924) >> Macrophalangia canadensis (Sternberg, 1932) |> Chirostenotes elegans (Sues, 1997) > Elmisaurus elegans (Parks, 1933) >> Ornithomimus elegans (Parks, 1933)

3 pedes.

A partial left foot (MOR 752) includes a fragment of the astragalus, an indeterminate metatarsel fragment , aprtial metatarsal II, the distal end of phalanx II-1, phalanx II-2, and complete dihits III and IV, collected from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of Dawson County, Montana was described by Varricchio in 2001