[D] Elmisaurus elegans
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
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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
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