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 | |
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.