Chirostenotes

narrow hand (or "narrow-handed one")

• cheir (chiro-) · Greek · hand
• stenos · Greek · narrow
• -otes · Greek · agent suffix, 'one characterized by'

The name combines Greek roots for "hand" and "narrow". Gilmore chose it because the first fossils known were slender hands with long, narrow fingers and claws. The name refers to that delicate hand structure.

Named by

Gilmore

Year named

1924

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada

A feathered, toothless-beaked caenagnathid oviraptorosaur theropod. The type species is C. pergracilis. Some other Alberta fossils once assigned to it have since been moved to other genera, such as Caenagnathus and Epichirostenotes.