Talos sampsoni Zanno et al. 2011 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Troodontidae

Full reference: L. E. Zanno, D. J. Varricchio, P. M. O'Connor, A. L. Titus, and M. J. Knell. 2011. A new troodontid theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America. PLoS ONE 6(9):e24487:1-20

Belongs to Talos according to L. E. Zanno et al. 2011

See also Evans et al. 2017, Gao et al. 2012, Gianechini et al. 2017, van der Reest and Currie 2017, Williamson and Brusatte 2014 and Zanno et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UMNH VP 19479, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Talos type locality, The Blues, which is in a Campanian crevasse splay sandstone in the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Talos type locality, The Blues

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