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Utahraptor lived in the lower part of the Cedar Mountain Formation, a bed known as the Yellow Cat Member. According to the authors of its description, Utahraptor had an important ecological role as a major carnivore of the paleofauna of the present-day Arches region during the Early Cretaceous, and could probably attack prey larger than itself ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Family of theropod dinosaurs Dromaeosaurids Temporal range: Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N A collection of dromaeosaurid fossil skeletons. Clockwise from upper left: Deinonychus antirrhopus (a heavily built eudromaeosaur), Buitreraptor gonzalezorum (a long-snouted unenlagiine ...
Dromaeosaurus (/ ˌ d r oʊ m i ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s,-m i. oʊ-/; [3] lit. ' running lizard ') is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian and Maastrichtian), sometime between 80 and 69 million years ago, in Alberta, Canada and the western United States.
The term "raptor" by itself may also be used for a dromeosaurid, a Velociraptor, or originally, a bird of prey. Examples: Velociraptor ("speedy thief"); Utahraptor ("thief from Utah"); Raptorex ("thief king")-rex: Pronunciation: /rεks/. Origin: Latin rex. Meaning: king. Often used for large or impressive animals.
Tenontosaurus may have been the prey of Deinonychus. 1994. Ostrom speculated that Deinonychus hunted in packs to subdue prey larger than itself based on an association between several Deinonychus skeletons and a specimen of the ornithopod Tenontosaurus. [9] 1995. Currie followed Barsbold's division of Dromaeosauridae into Dromaeosaurinae and ...
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as (although not the same as) raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Extinct clade of dinosaurs Eudromaeosaurs Temporal range: Early Cretaceous – Late Cretaceous, 143–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Kimmeridgian record Eudromaeosauria diversity, featuring from top left to lower right: Utahraptor, Deinonychus, Velociraptor and Bambiraptor ...
The two hunt together and bring food back to the nest for the young. A white pterosaur, one Red has seen since she hatched, helps the two by finding carrion and prey in exchange for a helping of meat. On one hunting expedition, when the two adult Utahraptor are stalking a herd of Iguanodon, Red spies a young male Utahraptor that is watching ...