Martharaptor
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (139–134.6 Mya)
- Place
- Utah, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Martharaptor is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah. They can be distinguished from other therizinosauroids by means of several features of the skeleton (particularly the hands and feet) which were intermediate between early therizinosaurs such as Falcarius and Beipiaosaurus, and more “advanced” members of the group like therizinosaurids. The deep and homogeneous hand claws clearly differ from the case in early therizinosauroids, but the foot has not yet acquired the robust morphology of therizinosaurids.
What we know
- Named by Senter et al., 2012.
- Fossils found in Utah, USA.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Martharaptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.