Leptorhynchos (dinosaur)

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Leptorhynchos
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 75–66Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Oviraptorosauria
Family: Caenagnathidae
Subfamily: Caenagnathinae
Genus: Leptorhynchos
Longrich et al., 2013
Type species
Leptorhynchos gaddisi[1]
Longrich et al., 2013
Species

Leptorhynchos elegans
(Parks, 1933)
Leptorhynchos gaddisi
Longrich et al., 2013

Leptorhynchos is an extinct genus of caenagnathid dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park, Hell Creek[2] and Aguja Formations of west Texas and Montana, USA and southern Alberta, Canada.[3] It lived about 75 to 66 million years ago.[2]

References

  1. Longrich, N. R.; Barnes, K.; Clark, S.; Millar, L. (2013). "Correction to "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae"". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54 (2): 263. doi:10.3374/014.054.0204. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous; North America; Montana). Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 584
  3. Longrich, N. R.; Barnes, K.; Clark, S.; Millar, L. (2013). "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54: 23. doi:10.3374/014.054.0102. 
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