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Cyrtonyx
Cyrtonyx cooki Wetmore 1934
Late Cretaceous (Burdigalian) · 18.5–16.3 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Cyrtonyx cooki is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 18.5–16.3 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Wetmore 1934. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Cyrtonyx sits in deep time
Cyrtonyx
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Cyrtonyx's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.