Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Leg Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P. From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis. 405 grams, 18 cm (7 1/8 in.). From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection. Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus. [No Reserve]