Outline: a typical theropod
Martharaptor
"Martha's thief"
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Senter et al. 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Martharaptor
What it was like
Martharaptor was a therizinosaur, part of a group of feathered theropods that turned to eating plants and grew long claws on their hands. It is known from a few bones of the hands, feet and hips.
Its world
It lived about 137 to 133 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Utah. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain Formation, where the early therizinosaur Falcarius also lived.
How it was found
Senter and colleagues named it in 2012 from one find. The name honors the person who found the site.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Therizinosauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. Senter, J. I. Kirkland, and D. D. DeBlieux. 2012. Martharaptor greenriverensis, a new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah. PLoS ONE 7(8):e43911:1-12