Epichirostenotes

Epichirostenotes (meaning "above Chirostenotes", because it lived after the latter genus) is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous. Epichirostenotes is known from an incomplete skeleton found in 1923 at the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, in strata dated to about 72 million years ago.^[1] It was first named by Robert M. Sullivan, Steven E. Jasinski and Mark P.A. van Tomme in 2011 and the type species is Epichirostenotes curriei. Its holotype, ROM 43250, had been assigned to Chirostenotes pergracilis by Hans-Dieter Sues in 1997.^[1]

Epichirostenotes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 72 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Skeletal restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Caenagnathidae
Subfamily:	†Caenagnathinae
Genus:	†Epichirostenotes Sullivan, Jasinski & Van Tomme, 2011
Species:	†E. curriei
Binomial name
†Epichirostenotes curriei Sullivan, Jasinski & Van Tomme, 2011

See also

• Timeline of oviraptorosaur research