Species
Valid Extinct

Saurornitholestes langstoni

(Sues 1978)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
78
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Neotheropoda Unranked clade
Averostra Unranked clade
Tetanurae Unranked clade
Coelurosauria Unranked clade
Maniraptora Unranked clade
Paraves Unranked clade
Deinonychosauria Infraorder
Dromaeosauridae Family
Eudromaeosauria Unranked clade
Saurornitholestinae Subfamily
Saurornitholestes Genus
Saurornitholestes langstoni Species
Fossil sites 78 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
60
🇺🇸 United States
18
Geological formations
Oldman
25
Aguja
7
Coachman
1
Donoho Creek
1
Prince Creek
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
4
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
74
Bibliography
Original description
H.-D. Sues. 1978. A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62:381-400 DOI ↗
Bibliography (19)
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P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2015. The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):620-629 DOI ↗
D. R. Schwimmer, A. E. Sanders, and B. R. Erickson, R. E. Weems. 2015. A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 105(2):1-157
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L. E. Wilson. 2008. Comparative taphonomy and paleoecological reconstruction of two microvertebrate accumulations from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), eastern Montana. Palaios 23:289-297 DOI ↗
P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
A. R. Fiorillo. 2005. Turtle tracks in the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central Montana. Palaeontologia Electronica 9(1):1-11
J. T. Sankey, B. R. Standhardt, and J. A. Schiebout. 2005. Theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bed National Park, Texas. The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
A. R. Fiorillo and R. A. Gangloff. 2001. Theropod teeth from the Prince Creek Formation (Cretaceous) of northern Alaska, with speculations on Arctic dinosaur paleoecology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4):675-682 DOI ↗
J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54 DOI ↗
M. J. Ryan, A. P. Russell, and D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie. 2001. The taphonomy of a Centrosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) bone bed from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada, with comments on cranial ontogeny. Palaios 16:482–506 DOI ↗
J. T. Sankey. 2001. Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 75(1):208-215 DOI ↗
J. T. Sankey. 1998. Vertebrate paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, upper Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3, suppl.):75A DOI ↗
D. A. Eberth and D. B. Brinkman. 1997. Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada. Palaios 12:43-58 DOI ↗
P. J. Currie and A. R. Jacobsen. 1995. An azhdarchid pterosaur eaten by a velociraptorine theropod. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:922-925 DOI ↗
A. R. Fiorillo and P. J. Currie. 1994. Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):74-80 DOI ↗
D. B. Brinkman. 1990. Paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Dinosaur National Park, Alberta, Canada: evidence from vertebrate microfossil locality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:37-54
J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta
H.-D. Sues. 1978. A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62:381-400 DOI ↗