Nothronychus
Field photograph to come
Nothronychus
DV-0489
- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 5.3 m (17 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Therizinosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Kirkland and Wolfe 2001
Field notes
About Nothronychus
Nothronychus was a plant-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago. It belongs to the family Therizinosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Nothronychus, from New Mexico and Utah. Its fossils come from rocks including the Moreno Hill Formation and the Tropic Shale Formation. It was named by Kirkland and Wolfe in 2001.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
To scale
How big was Nothronychus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland and D. G. Wolfe. 2001. First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):410-414