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| rdfs:comment | - In 2001, an expedition team led by Jim Kirkland and Doug Wolfe into the Zuni district in New Mexico revealed a new type of strange theropod dinosaur. They named it Nothronychus mckinleyi, after its huge, 1-foot (0.3-meter), sloth-like claws. The mckinleyi part of its name comes from Bobby McKinley, whose land is where this important find came from. A few years later another, a more complete specimen of Nothronychus was discovered in the Tropic Shale in Utah. Nothronychus is a significant find in the fossil record because it's the first evidence that therizinosaurs lived in North America, since all previous ones had been found in Asia.
- Nothronychus is a genus of dinosaur classified in the group Therizinosauria, strange herbivorous theropods with a toothless beak, a bird-like hip (resembling the non-related ornithischians) and four-toed feet, with all four toes facing forward. The type species of this dinosaur, N. mckinleyi, was described by James Kirkland and Douglas G. Wolfe in 2001 near New Mexico's border with Arizona, in an area known as the Zuni Basin. It was recovered from rocks assigned to the Moreno Hill Formation, dating to the late Cretaceous period (mid-Turonian stage), around 91 million years ago. A second specimen, described in 2009 as a second species, N. graffami, was found in the Tropic Shale formation of Utah, dating to the early Turonian, between 1 million and a half million years before N. mckinleyi.
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| abstract | - Nothronychus is a genus of dinosaur classified in the group Therizinosauria, strange herbivorous theropods with a toothless beak, a bird-like hip (resembling the non-related ornithischians) and four-toed feet, with all four toes facing forward. The type species of this dinosaur, N. mckinleyi, was described by James Kirkland and Douglas G. Wolfe in 2001 near New Mexico's border with Arizona, in an area known as the Zuni Basin. It was recovered from rocks assigned to the Moreno Hill Formation, dating to the late Cretaceous period (mid-Turonian stage), around 91 million years ago. A second specimen, described in 2009 as a second species, N. graffami, was found in the Tropic Shale formation of Utah, dating to the early Turonian, between 1 million and a half million years before N. mckinleyi. The name Nothronychus, derived from Greek meaning 'sloth-like claw', was selected because the animal reminded Kirkland of a giant ground sloth.
- In 2001, an expedition team led by Jim Kirkland and Doug Wolfe into the Zuni district in New Mexico revealed a new type of strange theropod dinosaur. They named it Nothronychus mckinleyi, after its huge, 1-foot (0.3-meter), sloth-like claws. The mckinleyi part of its name comes from Bobby McKinley, whose land is where this important find came from. A few years later another, a more complete specimen of Nothronychus was discovered in the Tropic Shale in Utah. Nothronychus is a significant find in the fossil record because it's the first evidence that therizinosaurs lived in North America, since all previous ones had been found in Asia.
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