A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado


On Dinosaur Classification

On Scientific Names

The Basics of Taxonomy

An Introduction to Cladistcs

Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado

About the Dinosaurs of Colorado

Geological
Time Chart


   

Genus Ornitholestes

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Theropodia
    Order (?) Coelurosauria
      Family ???
O. hermani Osborn, 1903
  Colorado, Wyoming, Utah

Species in Colorado: Ornitholestes hermani

Size: Where found:
Not available at this time.
Morrison Formation of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado

Period: Age:
Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
  144 to 156 Ma.

Material Found
Skull and associated postcranial skeleton.


Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard


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