Falcarius Falcarius
"sickle cutter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Falcarius 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (139–134.6 Mya)
- Place
- North America · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Falcarius (meaning “sickle cutter”) 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 1999, with subsequent findings made during the 2000s. The genus is known from multiple specimens ranging from immature to fully-grown individuals.
Falcarius was a 4 m long bipedal herbivore with a small head and an elongated neck and tail. Unlike advanced therizinosaurs, Falcarius had a propubic pelvis and three-toed feet with a reduced hallux (first digit).
What we know
- Named by Kirkland et al. 2005.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in North America and China.