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# Deinonychus

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? Deinonychus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Deinonychus acting like a predator.
Scientific classification

Kingdom: | Animalia
Phylum: | Chordata
Class: | Sauropsida
Superorder: | Dinosauria
Order: | Saurischia
Suborder: | Theropoda
Infraorder: | Coelurosauria
Family: | Dromaeosauridae
Subfamily: | Dromaeosaurinae
Genus: | Deinonychus
Species: | D. antirrhopus

Binomial name
Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom, 1969

Deinonychus (pronounced:dei-ON-ike-US) was a dinosaur that was 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and 10 feet (3 meters) long. It was the second largest raptor (after Utahraptor). It was a dinosaur that hunted dinosaurs like Tenontosaurus or Psittacosaurus.

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