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Hesperonychus
Carnivore
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There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Hesperonychus (Dinosaur Park), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Centrosaurus
Cretaceous
Corythosaurus
Cretaceous
Chasmosaurus
Cretaceous
Gorgosaurus
Cretaceous
Lambeosaurus
Cretaceous
Citipes
Cretaceous
Baptornis
Cretaceous
Styracosaurus
Cretaceous
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Dromaeosauridae
- When it lived
- 72.2–83.6 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Campanian
- Named by
- Longrich and Currie, 2009
- Fossil occurrences
- 4 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata