| Epichirostenotes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 72 Ma |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Elmisaurinae |
| Genus: | †Epichirostenotes Sullivan, Jasinski & Van Tomme, 2011 |
| Species: | †E. curriei |
| Binomial name | |
| Epichirostenotes curriei Sullivan, Jasinski & Van Tomme, 2011 |
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Epichirostenotes is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous. Epichirostenotes is known from an incomplete skeleton found in 1923 at the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, in strata dated to about 72 million years ago.[1] It was first named by Robert M. Sullivan, Steven E. Jasinski and Mark P.A. van Tomme in 2011 and the type species is Epichirostenotes curriei. Its holotype, ROM 43250, had in 1997 by Hans-Dieter Sues been assigned to Chirostenotes pergracilis.[1]