Dryptosaurus
Sign in to saveDryptosaurus ( ; meaning "tearing lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the present-day East Coast of the United States during the Late Cretaceous period. The type, and only, species, D. aquilunguis was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 as Laelaps aquilunguis, however the genus name was preoccupied by a mite. As a result, Cope's rival in the Bone Wars, Othniel Marsh, replaced the genus name with Dryptosaurus. Dryptosaurus is known from a single, fragmentary skeleton including parts of the mandible (lower jaw), limbs, and vertebrae. These fossils were unearthed by fertil
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Vinony files it under Dinosaur genera, Dinosaurs of the United States and Fossil taxa described in 1877.
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Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Dryptosauridae
- Image
- Dryptosaurus Feathered Reconstruction.jpg
- Length
- 6.4
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- taxon name
- Dryptosaurus
- Commons category
- Dryptosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- United States
- main food source
- carnivore
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