Chirostenotes keyerohstih-NOHTIːZ
"large toes from Canada"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chirostenotes 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76.5–75 Mya)
- Place
- Canada · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Caenagnathidae
Chirostenotes ( ; named from Greek ‘narrow-handed’) is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 76.5–75 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. The type species is Chirostenotes pergracilis.
What we know
- Named by Gilmore, 1924.
- Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
- Fossils found in Canada and Alberta, Canada.