Description
- Saurornitholestes
- Cretaceous Age
- Hell Creek Formation
- Powder River County, Montana
- The tooth measures approx 1/4″ long
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Saurornitholestes tooth for sale. Saurornitholestes (“lizard-bird thief”) is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Canada and the United States
Two species have been named: Saurornitholestes langstoni in 1978 and Saurornitholestes sullivani in 2015.
Like other theropods in the Dromaeosauridae, Saurornitholestes had a long, curving, blade-like claw on the second toe. Saurornitholestes was more long-legged and lightly built than other dromaeosaurids such as Velociraptor and Dromaeosaurus.
It resembles Velociraptor in having large, fanglike teeth in the front of the jaws. Saurornitholestes most closely resembles Velociraptor, although the precise relationships of the Dromaeosauridae are still relatively poorly understood.
