Hulsanpes

"Khulsan foot"

Generic raptor body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Hulsanpes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic raptor body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Hulsanpes
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (75–72 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.

Hulsanpes (meaning “Khulsan foot”) is a genus of halszkaraptorine theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia, about 75-72 million years ago. The remains were found in 1970 and formally described in 1982 by Halszka Osmólska, who noted that the genus is represented by an immature individual. Hulsanpes represents the first record of the basal dromaeosaurid subfamily Halszkaraptorinae.

What we know

  • Named by Osmólska, 1982.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Hulsanpes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.