Family
Valid Extinct

Dryptosauridae

Marsh 1890

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Dryptosauridae
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Six tyrannosauroids (top to bottom): Tyrannosaurus, Dilong, Alioramus (background) with Guanlong (foreground), Gorgosaurus, Yutyrannus © User:Mgiganteus1 Tony Cairns ★Kumiko★ Traumador the Tyrannosaur Laika ac · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Avetheropoda Order
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Carnosauria Infraorder
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Dryptosauridae Family
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
3
Geological formations
Marshalltown
1
Merchantville
1
Navesink
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
3
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1890. Additional characters of the Ceratopsidae, with notice of new Cretaceous dinosaurs. American Journal of Science 39:418-426 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
C. D. Brownstein. 2021. Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America. Royal Society Open Science 8:210127 DOI ↗
W. R. Callahan, C. M. Mehling, and R. K. Denton Jr, D. C. Parris. 2014. Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Holmdel Park Site, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Dakoterra 6:163-169
W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154