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| - Dryptosaurus is estimated to have been 7.6 metres (25 ft) long and to have weighed 1.5 to 1.7 tons, although this is based on partial remains of one individual.[1] Like its relative Eotyrannus, Dryptosaurus seems to have had relatively long arms compared to, for example, Tyrannosaurus, and the hands are believed to have had three fingers. Each of these fingers was tipped by a talonlike 8 inch claw.[2] These claws lend a meaning for the type species aquilunguis: eagle-clawed.
- The genus name Dryptosaurus, means "tearing lizard", and is derived from the Greek words "drypto" (δρύπτω), meaning "to tear" and "sauros" (σαυρος) meaning "lizard".[1] The specific name aquilunguis, is derived from the Latin for "having claws like an eagle's", a reference to the claws on its three-fingered hand. E.D. Cope (1866) published a paper on the specimen within a week of its discovery, and christened it Laelaps aquilunguis at a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.[2] "Laelaps", which is derived from the Greek for “hurricane” or “storm wind”, was also the name of a dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting.[3] Laelaps gained popularity as both a poetic and evocative name and became one of the first dinosaurs described from North Am
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| - The genus name Dryptosaurus, means "tearing lizard", and is derived from the Greek words "drypto" (δρύπτω), meaning "to tear" and "sauros" (σαυρος) meaning "lizard".[1] The specific name aquilunguis, is derived from the Latin for "having claws like an eagle's", a reference to the claws on its three-fingered hand. E.D. Cope (1866) published a paper on the specimen within a week of its discovery, and christened it Laelaps aquilunguis at a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.[2] "Laelaps", which is derived from the Greek for “hurricane” or “storm wind”, was also the name of a dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting.[3] Laelaps gained popularity as both a poetic and evocative name and became one of the first dinosaurs described from North America, following Hadrosaurus, Aublysodon and Trachodon. Subsequently, it was discovered that the name Laelaps had already been given to a genus of mite, and Cope's lifelong rival O.C. Marsh changed the name in 1877 to Dryptosaurus. The type species is Dryptosaurus aquilunguis.
- Dryptosaurus is estimated to have been 7.6 metres (25 ft) long and to have weighed 1.5 to 1.7 tons, although this is based on partial remains of one individual.[1] Like its relative Eotyrannus, Dryptosaurus seems to have had relatively long arms compared to, for example, Tyrannosaurus, and the hands are believed to have had three fingers. Each of these fingers was tipped by a talonlike 8 inch claw.[2] These claws lend a meaning for the type species aquilunguis: eagle-clawed.
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