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The remains of the diminutive dinosaur, called Hesperonychus, were excavated at the 75m-year-old Dinosaur Park Formation site in Alberta in 1982, but had lain unstudied for
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North America has a new tiniest dinosaur, Hesperonychus.
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Also, we have another tiny, new dinosaur, the smallest carnivorous yet known from North America, Hesperonychus elizabethae, a 19-inch tall theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada.
"So lose some sleep and say you tried." mechangel 2009
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H is for heterodontosaurid, Hesperonychus, and Hurdia
"So lose some sleep and say you tried." mechangel 2009
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North America has a new tiniest dinosaur, Hesperonychus.
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"The few bones we have from Hesperonychus are very similar, so we think they were similar to the Chinese things."
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The similarities between Hesperonychus and the other species he studied in China helped Longrich identify the new species.
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In 1982, Elizabeth Nicholls found a Hesperonychus elizabethae's fossilized claws and a well-preserved pelvis at the Dinosaur Park Formation, near Red Deer river.
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Hesperonychus means "western claw," a reference to the enlarged sickle-shaped claw on its second toe.
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The two Chinese species were less than a metre long, just like the Hesperonychus.
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