Zapsalis
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Zapsalis
DV-0030 · type species Zapsalis abradens
- Lived
- 86 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Named by
- Cope 1876
Field notes
About Zapsalis
Zapsalis was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
It was named by Cope in 1876.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
No finds with map coordinates are recorded yet.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. C. Marsh. 1877. Notice of new dinosaurian reptiles from the Jurassic formation. American Journal of Science and Arts 14:514-516