
0.4" Saurornitholestes Raptor Serrated Tooth Fossil Judith River FM MT COA, Display
Location: Judith River Formation, Hill County, Montana (Private Land Origin) Weight: 0.3 Ounces Dimensions: 1.3 Inches Long, 1.3 Inches Wide, 0.7 Inches Thick (Display) Dimensions Tooth: 0.4 Inches Long, 0.2 Inches Wide, 0.1 Inches Thick Comes with a Display Box. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. This is a genuine fossil. Saurornitholestes ("lizard-bird thief") is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Alberta, Montana, and New Mexico. Two species have been named: Saurornitholestes langstoni in 1978 and Saurornitholestes sullivani in 2015. Saurornitholestes was a small bipedal meat-eating dinosaur, equipped with a sickle-claw on the foot. Like other theropods in the Dromaeosauridae, Saurornitholestes had a long, curving, blade-like claw on the second toe. Saurornitholestes was more long-legged and lightly built than other dromaeosaurids such as Velociraptor and Dromaeosaurus. It resembles Velociraptor in having large, fanglike teet