Dryptosaurus ( ; meaning "tearing lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the present-day East Coast of the United States during the Late Cretaceous period. The type, and only, species, D. aquilunguis was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 as Laelaps aquilunguis, however the genus name was preoccupied by a mite. As a result, Cope's rival in the Bone Wars, Othniel Marsh, replaced the genus name with Dryptosaurus. Dryptosaurus is known from a single, fragmentary skeleton including parts of the mandible (lower jaw), limbs, and vertebrae. These fossils were unearthed by fertil
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- Parent taxon
- Dryptosauridae
- Image
- Dryptosaurus Feathered Reconstruction.jpg
- Length
- 6.4
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- taxon name
- Dryptosaurus
- Commons category
- Dryptosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
- location of discovery
- United States
- main food source
- carnivore
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傷龍（屬名：Dryptosaurus，發音：/ˌdrɪptoʊˈsɔːrəs/ DRIP-toh-SOR-əs)）又名兇龍，是一屬暴龍超科恐龍，生存於白堊紀晚期（約6700萬年前）的北美洲東部，相當於現在的紐澤西州。傷龍是大型、、陸生的肉食性動物，身長可達7.5公尺。早期一幅由所繪的畫作，使傷龍成為當時（19世紀末）最廣為人知的恐龍之一，儘管牠的化石紀錄一直都很少。傷龍最初是由愛德華·德林克·寇普（Edward Drinker Cope）於1866年所敘述，之後由奧斯尼爾·馬許（Othniel Charles Marsh）於1877年重新命名，成為最早為科學界所知的獸腳類恐龍。
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