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TALOS
(tay-los)
meaning: "After a giant bronze automaton from Greek Mythology"
Talos
Named By: Lindsay E. Zanno, David J. Varricchio, Patrick M. O'Connor, Alan L. Titus & Michael J. Knell in 2011
Time Period: Campanian, 75.95 Ma
Location: USA, Utah - Kaiparowits Formation
Size: Roughly estimated at about 2 meters long
Diet: Carnivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial remains including rear limbs, partial pelvis, vertebrae and a forelimb bone
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Troodontidae |
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Talos is an extinct genus of carnivorous bird-like theropod dinosaur, an advanced troodontid which lived during the late Cretaceous period (late Campanian, about 75.95 Ma) in what is now Utah, United States.

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