Meaning | Advanced carnivorous theropod. |
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Member of | Maniraptora, suborder Maniraptora | Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds |
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Narrower | Mononychus olecranus | A turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's |
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deinonychus | swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot |
dromaeosaur | A kind of maniraptor |
oviraptorid | Advanced carnivorous theropod |
utahraptor, superslasher | large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot |
velociraptor | small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops |
Broader | theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur | Any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs |
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Spanish | maniraptor |
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Catalan | maniraptor |
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