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Dino Fact File #43 - Nothronychus

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Distribution: New Mexico and Utah, USA
Classification: Theropoda, Tetanurae, Therizinosauria, Therizinosauridae
Meaning of name: "sloth claw"
Named by: James Kirkland and Douglas Wolfe, 2001
Time: Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous
Size: 4.5 to 6 meters (15 to 20 feet)
Lifestyle: Browser
Species: N. mckinleyi, N. graffami

Nothronychus, the first therizinosaur to be found outside Asia, is also one of the most complete. It lived at the edge of the shallow sea that covered most of central North America at the time, in the swampy deltas in the area of New Mexico and Utah. It is one of the few dinosaurs known from the early part of the Late Cretaceous. Its name, which means "sloth claw", comes from the similarity between it and the giant ground sloths that existed until a few million years ago.

--- The Computer Dinosaurs ---

Species number: 43
Story arc: 8
Episode: 44
Other information: It resembles Therizinosaurus but with a smaller size, shorter hand claws, and red instead of green feathers. It is the second and last dinosaur to be featured in story arc 8.

Description
The Computer Dinosaurs

Dino Fact File #43 - Nothronychus

--- Real World ---

Distribution: New Mexico and Utah, USA
Classification: Theropoda, Tetanurae, Therizinosauria, Therizinosauridae
Meaning of name: "sloth claw"
Named by: James Kirkland and Douglas Wolfe, 2001
Time: Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous
Size: 4.5 to 6 meters (15 to 20 feet)
Lifestyle: Browser
Species: N. mckinleyi, N. graffami

Nothronychus, the first therizinosaur to be found outside Asia, is also one of the most complete. It lived at the edge of the shallow sea that covered most of central North America at the time, in the swampy deltas in the area of New Mexico and Utah. It is one of the few dinosaurs known from the early part of the Late Cretaceous. Its name, which means "sloth claw", comes from the similarity between it and the giant ground sloths that existed until a few million years ago.

--- The Computer Dinosaurs ---

Species number: 43
Story arc: 8
Episode: 44
Other information: It resembles Therizinosaurus but with a smaller size, shorter hand claws, and red instead of green feathers. It is the second and last dinosaur to be featured in story arc 8.