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Hesperonychus

author: Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

reference: t-din03-00852

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 21 cm

A group of North America's smallest known carnivorous, non-avian dinosaur, estimated to weigh 1.9 kg, the recently described Hesperonychus elizabethae prowls the shores of a shallow Albertan lake in the Campanian Late Cretaceous (75 million years ago) while a much larger theropod, Gorgosaurus libratus, approaches from the opposite shore. Hesperonychus elizabethae was a genus of small, carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur.

Keywords for this photo:

ANIMAL - CRETACEOUS - DINOSAUR - EARTH - FOREST - GORGOSAURUS - HESPERONYCHUS - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - LAKE - MESOZOIC - THEROPOD -