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Hesperonychus Hesperonychus elizabethae Longrich and Currie 2009
/hˈɛspɚɹˌɑːnɪtʃəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Where It Was Found
Country
Canada
Region
Alberta
Formations
Dinosaur Park · Oldman
Dig sites
4
distinct collections
Overview
Hesperonychus elizabethae is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a carnivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling. Fossils have been recovered from Alberta, Canada. It was named by Longrich and Currie 2009. The species is represented by 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~15%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Hesperonychus elizabethae sits in deep time
Hesperonychus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Hesperonychus elizabethae's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.