Back صورورنيثوليستس Arabic Saurornitholestes Catalan Saurornitholestes Czech Saurornitholestes German Saŭrornitolesto EO Saurornitholestes Spanish سارورنیتولستس FA Saurornitholestes French זאורורניתולסט HE Saurornitholestes Hungarian
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| Skeletal reconstruction of S. langstoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
| Clade: | †Eudromaeosauria |
| Subfamily: | †Saurornitholestinae |
| Genus: | †Saurornitholestes Sues, 1978 |
| Type species | |
| †Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues, 1978
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Saurornitholestes ("lizard-bird thief") is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Canada (Alberta) and the United States (Montana, New Mexico, Alabama, and South Carolina).
Two species have been named: Saurornitholestes langstoni in 1978 and Saurornitholestes sullivani in 2015. Saurornitholestes was a small bipedal meat-eating dinosaur, equipped with a sickle-claw on the foot.
- ^ "Jack's Birthday Site, MOR TM-068 (bone layer) (Cretaceous of the United States)". PBDB.org.
- ^ "TAKING COUNT: A Census of Dinosaur Fossils Recovered From the Hell Creek and Lance Formations (Maastrichtian)". The Journal of Paleontological Sciences.