Dryptosaurus
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Dryptosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the present-day East Coast of the United States during the Late Cretaceous period. The type, and only, species, D. aquilunguis was described
NJSM Dryptosaurus
An outdated artist's impression of Dryptosaurus (center) confronting Elasmosaurus, with Mosasaurus, Osteopygis, Thoracosaurus and two Hadrosaurus in the background. Illustration for an article by Edward Drinker Cope in The American Naturalist, April 1869.
Holotype claw bone
Hypothetical life restoration with simple feathers
New Egypt Formation
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The New Egypt Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation of the Monmouth Group in New Jersey, United States.
Dryptosaurus
…including parts of the mandible (lower jaw), limbs, and vertebrae. These fossils were unearthed by fertilizer miners in New Jersey in rock layers of the New Egypt Formation. This formation dates to the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, around 67 to 66 million years ago. Several other fragmentary remains have…
The famous painting Leaping Laelaps was inspired by Dryptosaurus remains found in the New Egypt Formation.
Edaphodon AMNH
Ginglymostoma cirratum SI
Hemiscyllium trispeculare randall