Stenonychosaurus Claw Replica

Description

Stenonychosaurus Claw Replica measures 1.5 inches. Stenonychosaurus Claw Replica is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA. Stenonychosaurus inequalis is the scientific name. Our precise claw can be used as a teaching tool, museum claw exhibit, home décor claw, or office décor claw.

Stenonychosaurus (meaning “narrow claw lizard”) is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, as well as possibly the Two Medicine Formation.

The type and only species, S. inequalis, was named by Charles Mortram Sternberg in 1932, based on a foot, fragments of a hand, and some caudal vertebrae from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta. S. inequalis was reassigned in 1987 by Phil Currie to the genus Troodon, which was reverted by the recognition of Stenonychosaurus as a separate genus from the possibly dubious Troodon in 2017 by Evans et al. and also later in the same year by Van der Reest and Currie.

Stenonychosaurus was a typically built troodontid,‭ ‬ranging between two and two and half meters in length. ‭ ‬A sickle shaped claw was present on each foot,‭ ‬and ‬probably the primary killing tool of this dinosaur.

Stenonychosaurus was a small dinosaur, up to 0.9 meters (3.0 ft.) in height, 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in length and 35 kilograms (77 lb.) to 50 kilograms (110 lb.) in mass. The largest specimens are comparable in size to Deinonychus and Unenlagia. They had very long, slender hind limbs, suggesting that these animals were able to run quickly. They had large, retractable sickle-shaped claws on the second toes, which were raised off the ground when running.

Their eyes were very large (perhaps suggesting a partially nocturnal lifestyle), and slightly forward facing, giving Stenonychosaurus some degree of depth perception.

The first specimens currently assigned to Troodon that were not teeth were both found by Sternberg in 1928, in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.

The first was named Stenonychosaurus inequalis by Sternberg in 1932, based on a foot, fragments of a hand, and some tail vertebrae. A remarkable feature of these remains was the enlarged claw on the second toe, which is now recognized as characteristic of early paravians.

Stenonychosaurus Facts:

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: †Troodontidae
Subfamily: †Troodontinae
Genus: †Stenonychosaurus
Sternberg, 1932
Type species: †Stenonychosaurus inequalis

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