Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Claw Replica

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“Terrible claw” refers to the unusually large, sickle-shaped talon on the second toe of each hind foot. The fossil YPM 5205 preserves a large, strongly curved ungual. In life, archosaurs have a horny sheath over this bone, which extends the length.

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Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Claw Replica measures 2 inches. Tenontosaurus Dinosaur Claw Replica is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA. Our precise claw can be used as a teaching tool, museum claw exhibit, home décor claw, or office décor claw.

Tenontosaurus or Tenontosaurus tilletti meaning sinew lizard is a genus of medium to large sized ornithopod dinosaur. The genus is known from the late Aptian to Albian ages of the middle Cretaceous period sediments of western North America, dating between 115 and 108 million years ago.

The genus contains two species, Tenontosaurus tilletti (described by John Ostrom in 1970) and Tenontosaurus dossi (described by Winkler, Murry, and Jacobs in 1997). Many specimens of T. tilletti have been collected from several geological formations throughout western North America. T. dossi is known from only a handful of specimens collected from the Twin Mountains Formation of Parker County, Texas.

It was about 6.5 to 8 meters (21 to 26 ft.) long and 3 meters (10 ft.) high in a bipedal stance, with a mass of somewhere between 1 to 2 tones (1 to 2 short tons). It had an unusually long, broad tail, which like its back was stiffened with a network of bony tendons.

“Terrible claw” refers to the unusually large, sickle-shaped talon on the second toe of each hind foot. The fossil YPM 5205 preserves a large, strongly curved ungual. In life, archosaurs have a horny sheath over this bone, which extends the length.

The first Tenontosaurus fossil was found in Big Horn County, Montana by an American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) expedition in 1903. Subsequent digs in the same area during the 1930s unearthed 18 more specimens, and four specimens were found during the 1940s.

Despite the large number of fossil specimens, the animal was not named or scientifically described during this time, though Barnum Brown of the AMNH gave it the informal name “Tenantosaurus”, “sinew lizard”, in reference to the extensive system of stiffening tendons in its back and tail.

During the 1960s, Yale University began an extensive, long-term dig in the Big Horn Basin area (Cloverly Formation) of Montana and Wyoming. The expedition was led by John Ostrom, whose team discovered more than 40 new specimens of Tenontosaurus or Tenontosaurus tilletti. Following his expedition, Ostrom became the first to describe and name the animal, calling it Tenontosaurus, a slight variation in spelling of Brown’s informal name.

Since 1970, many more Tenontosaurus specimens have been reported, both from the Cloverly and other geological formations, including the Antlers Formation in Oklahoma, Paluxy Formation of Texas, Wayan Formation of Idaho, Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, and Arundel Formation of Maryland. Cretaceous period sediments of western North America, dating between 115 and 108 million years ago.

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Weight 1.5 lbs
Dimensions 2 in
Tenontosaurus Facts

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: †Ornithischia
Suborder: †Ornithopoda
Clade: †Iguanodontia
Genus: †Tenontosaurus