Falcarius
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Falcarius is a genus of primitive therizinosaur dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period in what is now North America. Its remains were first collected in the Cedar Mountain Formation in
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Block containing dense concentration of Falcarius bones (specimen number CEUM 8429). On display at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah
Pectoral girdle of skeletal cast
Left foot of Falcarius, showing the reduced dewclaw (or hallux)
Beipiaosaurus
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Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous in the Yixian Formation. The first remains were found in 1996 and formally described in
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…the typical theropod bodyplan to the unusual morphology of Therizinosauridae. Its description in 2005, following that of the basal therizinosauroid Beipiaosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of China in 1999, helped clarify the early evolution of the Therizinosauria and its relationships within the larger group of…
Skeletal composite of IVPP V11559 and STM 31-1
Reconstructed skeleton in Liaoning Palaeontological Museum
Feather impressions on the left arm from the holotype on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China
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