8/30/2023 0 Comments Saurian dakotaraptor![]() Apart from the remains of the holotype, in the site bones were discovered that also belonged to Dakotaraptor but which represented a more gracile morph. An assigned furcula was later excluded from the specimen. ![]() It contains a piece of a back vertebra, ten tail vertebrae, both humeri, both ulnae, both radii, the first and second right metacarpals, three claws of the left hand, a right thighbone, both shinbones, a left astragalus bone, a left calcaneum, the left second, third and fourth metatarsal, the right fourth metatarsal, and the second and third claw of the right foot. ![]() It consists of a partial skeleton, lacking the skull, of an adult individual. The holotype, PBMNH.P.10.113.T, was found in a sandstone layer of the upper Hell Creek Formation, dating from the late Maastrichtian. Said furcula was later shown to be an element from a trionychid turtle. Proposed furcula (A and G) compared with other theropod dinosaurs.
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