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Utahraptor. Utahraptor ostrommaysorum
This flapping pushes the feet of the bird against the tree, allowing it to run vertically up the trunk. This indicates, but does not prove, that small dromaeosaurs lived part-time in the trees. In larger species, the wing feathers may have helped to maintain balance while attacking prey. In the formations where it was found the Yellow Cat and Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, respectively , Utahraptor lived alongside such dinosaurs that it preys on such as Gastonia , Iguanodon , Hippodraco , Cedrorestes , Iguanacolossus , Martharaptor , and Falcarius.
Sauropods such as Venenosaurus and Cedarosaurus were also on its menu and also found here, as were other predators that it live with such as Nedcolbertia and Geminiraptor.
Any one of these was a potential prey item, though the smaller animals such as Necolbertia would have been little in the way of a meal for such a predator as Utahraptor. As with all predators, Utahraptor likely targeted animals such as the infirm, weak and inexperienced. Scavenging was also probably a preferable opportunity when there was access to a carcass. Like most dromaeosaurine dromaeosaurids, Utahraptor probably relied on its jaws to kill prey more than other subfamilies of dromaeosaurs did.
As a result and based on the analysis of related species like Dromaeosaurus, which included bone in its diet, Utahraptor probably had an extremely powerful bite as a result. Utahraptor was likely an ambush predator. Given its robust, stocky build and short legs, it was not particularly fast, but given that its prey was likely slower, what it lacked in speed it made up for with power and agility.
Utahraptor’s habitat was a series of floodplains and open woodlands with riverine forests. The wet season was short in this habitat and the climate was semi-arid.
As Utahraptor was not fast, it likely used the available cover to lie and wait for prey. In , Kirkland et al, pursued a graduate student’s discovery of a bone protruding from a 9-ton fossil block of sandstone in eastern Utah. It was determined to contain the bones of at least seven individuals, including an adult measuring about 4.
Also fossilized with the predators are the remains of at least one possible iguanodont herbivore. Kirkland speculated that the Utahraptor pack attempted to scavenge carrion or attack helpless prey mired in quicksand, and were themselves mired in the attempt to attack the herbivore. Examination of the fossils are ongoing after a decade of excavation, but if Kirkland is correct, it may be one of the best-preserved predator traps ever discovered.
The fossils may further reveal aspects into the behavior of Utahraptor, such as whether it might have hunted in groups like Deinonychus was believed to have done. Whether all the Utahraptor individuals were mired simultaneously or were drawn in, one-by-one is unclear. Further examination of the block suggests that the number of Utahraptor remains maybe double the amount previously assumed. While the social and complex behavior of the dromaesauridae can merely be theorized, it was later discovered in that Deinonychus may not have had complex social behavior seen in some pack-hunting animals in the modern era.
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John Ostrom of Yale University for his pioneering research linking carnivorous dinosaurs to the ancestry of birds. Utahraptor was the inspiration for the Velociraptors in the film Jurassic Park! Utahraptor, however, was quite a bit bigger than Velociraptor ; adults were around 20 feet 6. Utahraptor required paleontologists to revise their understanding of this family of dinosaurs as it was much larger and lived the Early Cretaceous.
In addition, Utahraptor is closely related to birds. Dromaeosaurids, troodontids small bipedal theropod feathered dinosaurs that also had a sickle claw on the foot , and the ancestors of modern birds all reside on the same branch of the dinosaur family tree. It may be hard to think of something so large and ferocious as being related to birds. A decrease in body size had to occur for these animals to evolve flight and to resemble more closely the birds we see today. Although dromaeosaurids died out some Remember, not all dinosaurs went extinct!
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Utahraptor –
Utahraptor remains are known from four different localities across Grand County. One of these sites has yielded a 9-ton 8. According to researchers, this is probably what’s left of a Cretaceous graveyard where dinos were trapped in a quicksand-like substance. Some iguanodont bones are included in the mix, but the real highlight is the raptor material.
Kirkland says the block has yielded fossils from “dozens” of individual Utahraptor. And in a stroke of luck, many of those dromaeosaurs are babies or juveniles. By the start of , fossil preparators had spent more than 3, hours working on the block, delicately exposing bone after bone.
Anyone interested in making a donation to support their efforts can get the details over at the Utah Geological Survey’s official website. Utahraptor was adopted as the official state dinosaur of where else? Utah in As it happens, the Beehive State also has an official fossil , the late Jurassic carnivore Allosaurus. But who’s complaining? Sign up for our Newsletter!
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By: Mark Mancini May 23, At the time, paleontologists weren’t sure what to make of them. Land of the Lost Utah is prime dino-hunting country. Time Plus Salt Way before the first dinosaurs showed up, there was a deep basin along what’s now the Utah-Colorado border. Flora and Fauna The two oldest assemblages of Cretaceous dinosaurs in the entire North American fossil record are both preserved in Grand County rocks. Meet the Raptors Want to impress your pals? The megablock contains the remains of at least one adult Utahraptor , 10 juveniles and three babies.
Utah Geological Survey. The Dinosaur Trap Real-world discoveries have upstaged the fiction. Though feathers from the arms were known to be true feathers in other dromaeosaurs such as Dakotaraptor and Velociraptor, the rest of the dinosaur’s plumage is speculative though fossil finds of smaller species exhibit many of the same types of feathers that are found in modern birds, In Utahraptor, the exact plumage type is not known.
The feathers on the arms of young dromaeosaurids would have enabled a special type of locomotion called wing-assisted incline running, or WAIR for short. Discovered by Ken Dial, a Montana zoologist, this is a behavior used by modern birds that combines flapping the wings back and forth while running up the sides of trees.
This flapping pushes the feet of the bird against the tree, allowing it to run vertically up the trunk. This indicates, but does not prove, that small dromaeosaurs lived part-time in the trees.
In larger species, the wing feathers may have helped to maintain balance while attacking prey. In the formations where it was found the Yellow Cat and Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, respectively , Utahraptor lived alongside such dinosaurs that it preys on such as Gastonia , Iguanodon , Hippodraco , Cedrorestes , Iguanacolossus , Martharaptor , and Falcarius.
Sauropods such as Venenosaurus and Cedarosaurus were also on its menu and also found here, as were other predators that it live with such as Nedcolbertia and Geminiraptor. Any one of these was a potential prey item, though the smaller animals such as Necolbertia would have been little in the way of a meal for such a predator as Utahraptor.
As with all predators, Utahraptor likely targeted animals such as the infirm, weak and inexperienced. Scavenging was also probably a preferable opportunity when there was access to a carcass. Like most dromaeosaurine dromaeosaurids, Utahraptor probably relied on its jaws to kill prey more than other subfamilies of dromaeosaurs did.
As a result and based on the analysis of related species like Dromaeosaurus, which included bone in its diet, Utahraptor probably had an extremely powerful bite as a result.
Utahraptor was likely an ambush predator. Given its robust, stocky build and short legs, it was not particularly fast, but given that its prey was likely slower, what it lacked in speed it made up for with power and agility. Utahraptor’s habitat was a series of floodplains and open woodlands with riverine forests. The wet season was short in this habitat and the climate was semi-arid. As Utahraptor was not fast, it likely used the available cover to lie and wait for prey. In , Kirkland et al, pursued a graduate student’s discovery of a bone protruding from a 9-ton fossil block of sandstone in eastern Utah.
It was determined to contain the bones of at least seven individuals, including an adult measuring about 4. Also fossilized with the predators are the remains of at least one possible iguanodont herbivore. The skull was large and strong, the lower jaw bent forward and down had sharp teeth facing forward. The legs were short, robust and powerful. These suggest that Utahraptor wasn’t a light-built swift long distance runner, but a heavily-built ambush hunter that hunted large herbivorous dinosaurs.
It was semiarid area with short wet season during the existence of Utahraptor. Utahraptor lived in places such as floodplains, riverine forests, and open woodlands. Due to the absence of larger theropod hypercarnivores in its habitat at the time, Utahraptor could evolve its larger size, took up the position of apex predator. Whilst all Utahraptors are inherently dangerous It’s the ones you don’t see that are truly clever.
Strong in both solo and group play, the great agility of the Utahraptor is what makes it so dangerous. With high stamina, fast running speed and a very tight turning radius, The Utahraptor is capable of hunting small- to almost large sized prey.
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