Outline: a typical theropod
Dromaeosauroides
Type species Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis
- Lived
- 139 to 137 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- Denmark
- Named by
- Christiansen and Bonde 2003
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
140 million years ago
Field notes
About Dromaeosauroides
What it was like
Dromaeosauroides was a dromaeosaur, a feathered hunter related to Velociraptor. It is known only from teeth, so its size and shape are guesses based on its relatives.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Denmark. It comes from the Jydegaard Formation, on an island in the sea east of mainland Denmark.
How it was found
Christiansen and Bonde named Dromaeosauroides in 2003. The type species is Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis. It is the first dinosaur named from Denmark.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. Christiansen and N. Bonde. 2003. The first dinosaur from Denmark. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227(2):287-299