Ornitholestes hermanni

Ornitholestes hermanni
Etymology	Adam Hermann's Bird Robber
Size	8.2 feet long, 3.7 feet long
Weight	25 pounds
Diet	Carnivorous: Small animals such as Birds.
Habitat	Coniferous forest, Riverbed
Fossil Range	150 million years ago: Living for approximately one million years
Location	Wyoming, USA
Did You Know...	It may not have been any thing like a tyrannosaur, some suggest (Like Thomas R. Holtz) that it was a primitive tyrannoraptorine, others believe it was a primitive maniraptoran.

Restoration

Ornitholestes hermanni is a species of possible tyrannosaur from Wyoming, USA in the Late Jurassic Epoch. It is one of the most, little-known genera of theropods in the world.

Classification and History of Discoveries

Taxonomy

Superorder: Dinosauria

Order: Saurischia

Suborder: Theropoda

Unranked: Coelurosauria/Tyrannoraptora

Superfamily: Tyrannosauroidea

Family: Coeluridae?

Subfamily: Ornitholestinae

Tribe: Ornitholestini

Genus: Ornitholestes

Species: Ornitholestes hermanni

Ornitholestes hermanni fits into the superorder Dinosauria obviously, skipping down, T. rex fits in the unranked suborder Coelurosauria, the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea, possibly the family Coeluridae, the subfamily Ornitholestinae, the tribe Ornitholestini and the genus Ornitholestes.

History of Discoveries

Before the evolution of feathers was realized in dinosaurs Ornitholestes hermanni was featherless. This has appeared in many forms of popular culture such as Walking With Dinosaurs and their miniseries. It has also been seen in the painting of Ornitholestes by Charles R. Knight. Another misconception about Ornitholestes was that it had a nasal horn, this also has appeared in Walking with Dinosaurs and many forms of artwork such as Gregory S. Paul's and Fabio Pastori's. They believed it because of a bad skull that had a crushed nasal bone which appeared as a horn.

Gallery

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