Gettyia
Gettyia was a small, bird-like dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago. It had strong feet and sharp claws, and scientists think it was a fast hunter or a good climber.31
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Gettyia is known from just one foot bone, a tarsometatarsus, found in the Two Medicine Formation.1
This bird had a special knob on its foot bone for a muscle that flexes the ankle, which helped it grab things.1
Scientists think Gettyia might have been a bird of prey or a climbing bird, because its foot was built for strong gripping.1
Gettyia was originally named Avisaurus gloriae in 1995, but was given its own genus in 2018.1
The species name gloriae honors Gloria Siebrecht, a volunteer who found the fossil.1
Gettyia lived in a warm, swampy environment near the Western Interior Seaway, a huge inland sea.1
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- Scientific name
- Gettyia
- Named by
- Atterholt et al. 20183
- Group
- Early birds
- Family / clade
- Avisauridae3
- Classification
- Theropoda > Avialae3
- Age of the rocks
- 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)3
- Rock formations
- Two Medicine3
- Countries
- USA3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- The only known fossil of Gettyia was discovered by volunteer Gloria Siebrecht in Montana, USA. It was first named Avisaurus gloriae in 1995, and then renamed Gettyia in 2018.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly what Gettyia ate or how it moved, because only one foot bone has been found.1
Where the facts come from
- Gettyia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gettyia – Encyklopedia Dinozaury.com (encyklopedia.dinozaury.com)
- Gettyia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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