• DOI:10.1080/02724634.2011.549442
Corpus ID: 73715992

New Information on the Braincase of the North American Therizinosaurian (Theropoda, Maniraptora) Falcarius utahensis

@inproceedings{Smith2011NewIO,
  title={New Information on the Braincase of the North American Therizinosaurian (Theropoda, Maniraptora) Falcarius utahensis},
  author={D. K. Smith and Lindsay E Zanno and R. Sanders and D. Deblieux and J. I. Kirkland},
  year={2011}
}

D. K. Smith, Lindsay E Zanno, +2 authors J. I. Kirkland

Published 2011

Geology

ABSTRACT Many disarticulated bones from multiple individuals of a primitive therizinosaurian, referred to Falcarius utahensis, were found in the paucispecific Crystal Geyser bonebed in the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah. To date, more than 2000 specimens from this species have been excavated. Included in this collection are two partial braincases, one of which is designated the holotype. Here we describe the braincase morphology of Falcarius utahensis. These… CONTINUE READING

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