Genus
Valid Extinct

Arkansaurus

Hunt and Quinn 2018
Etymology Reptile d'Arkansas|classification=Coelurosauria|ères=Crétacé inférieur (145.5-99.6 MA)|taille=|poids=|régime=Carnivore|géographie=USA|découverte=1972}}

Arkansaurus is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now North America. The type and only species is Arkansaurus fridayi.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore, omnivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Arkansaurus
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Ornithomimosauria Unranked clade
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Arkansaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Arkansaurus fridayi 113 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. K. Hunt and J. H. Quinn. 2018. A new ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group of Arkansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(1):e1421209:1-12 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
R. K. Hunt and J. H. Quinn. 2018. A new ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group of Arkansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(1):e1421209:1-12 DOI ↗