TheropodaCoelurosauria

Ornitholestes hermanni

Under revision. The skeletal of Ornitholestes hermanni is being updated; this placeholder stands in so the page stays available, and the outdated version is withheld to avoid circulating it. If you have an older copy, please treat it as superseded.

Ornitholestes hermanni — skeletal reconstruction under revision (placeholder silhouette).
Placeholder — skeletal under revision, not the current reconstruction
Taxon
Ornitholestes hermanni Osborn, 1903
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2007, revised 2016
Clade
  1. Theropoda
  2. Tetanurae
  3. Coelurosauria

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A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western United States. Ornitholestes was a lightly built predator with grasping hands, likely hunting small vertebrates. And my older skeletal needs an update, so for now this is just a placeholder, sorry!

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