Chirostenotes
Chirostenotes pergracilis
Pronounced:
Ky-row-Sten-o - tees
Diet: Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Name Means:
"Narrow Hand"
Length: 6 feet (2
m)
Height: 2 feet
(.7 m)
Weight: 66 pounds
(30 kilos)
Time: Late
Cretaceous - 70 MYA
Fossil remains for this
Dinosaur have been found in
Western Canada
Chirostenotes was a small, quick hunter with
long slender hands. Scientists are not really
sure of its exact family tree. Since its
discovery, Chirostenotes has been put into
several different branches of the dinosaur
family tree - including the Oviraptor d
and dromaeosaur families. Currently, it is a
part of the Elmisaur family, but that may change
once more fossils are uncovered.
This little dinosaur has been the subject of a
good amount of study over the years. There are
currently four species named, but it is generally
believed that at least two of these will prove
invalid and that, of the other two, the difference
may be attributed to gender. As a later Cretaceous
member of the maniraptorid, it may have been a
feathered dinosaur based on current thinking about
this family. |
