Ornitholestes
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| Ornitholestes Temporal range: Late Jurassic |
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Fossil
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| (unranked): | Coelurosauria |
| Genus: | Ornitholestes Osborn, 1903 |
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O. hermanni Osborn, 1903 (tipo) |
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Ornitholestes was a carnivore dinosaur, a meat eater. It may also have been a scavenger that lived in the late Jurassic period, about 156-145 million years ago.
Description [change]
Ornitholestes was a very fast bipedal runner. Ornitholestes fossils have been found in Wyoming and Utah. Ornitholestes was first described and named by the paleontologist Henry F. Osborn in 1903.
