maniraptora

Martharaptor

Martharaptor was a therizinosaur theropod dinosaur which lived in Utah during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 135-132 million years ago. Therizinosaurs are known mostly from the middle and later parts of the Cretaceous Period. Fossils dating to the early Cretaceous… Read More ›

Adasaurus

Adasaurus mongoliensis was a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur (commonly referred to as a “raptor“) which lived in Mongolia during the late Cretaceous Period about 70 million years ago. Fragmentary remains were found during the 1970s, and it was officially named and… Read More ›

Falcarius

Falcarius was a 12 foot long theropod dinosaur which lived in Utah during the early Cretaceous Period, approximately 139 to 136 million years ago. It was a very primitive therizinosaur – so primitive that it still bears a close resemblance… Read More ›

Microvenator

In North America, dinosaur fossils are found in profusion in rocks dated to the late Triassic, late Jurassic, and late Cretaceous Periods. However, much of the rest of the Mesozoic Era’s time scale contains much sparser remains. The middle part… Read More ›