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Deinonychus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Deinonychus antirrhopus
- Age
- Cretaceous, about 121.4–93.9 million years ago
- Found in
- USA
- Length
- 3.0 m
- Height
- 1.0 m
- Group
- Carnivorous group (Theropods / Dromaeosaurs)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (196 of 206) are borrowed from close relatives and fitted to this species' size and body proportions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 4 bones were shaped from photos or figures of this species' own fossils. 6 are estimated.
From this species 4Borrowed from relatives 196Estimated 6
Bones known from fossils
2 of 206 bones are known from fossils. 204 have no record.
Known 2Filled in 0No record 204
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D Skeleton: A reconstruction created for this site (2026-10-05) from freely usable materials (scientific papers, public domain books, and Wikimedia photos). Out of 206 bones (excluding teeth), 4 were modeled directly from photos, diagrams, and measurements of actual fossils of this species; 196 were scaled using bone shapes from close relatives; and 6 were estimated. Sources used: Parsons, Parsons 2015 PLOS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121476 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Persons IV, Currie 2016 Scientific Reports doi:10.1038/srep19828 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) / Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0 / Public domain). For other papers that cannot be freely reused, only factual information such as stated dimensions was referenced.
- Discovered bones: 2 bones are documented in the literature as fossil finds or visible in photographs (the rest are undiscovered, or unknown from the literature)
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