Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Leg Bone Section

CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.

7 1/8 in. (405 grams, 18 cm).

From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa.
From an old German paleontological collection.

Footnotes

Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.

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