What is Utahraptor?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Utahraptor'' | fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]] | image = BYU Utahraptor skeletal mount.jpg | image_caption = | image_width = 230px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Reptile|Sauropsida]] | superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia | ordo = [[Saurischia]] | subordo = [[Theropoda]] | unranked_familia = [[Coelurosauria]] | familia = [[Dromaeosauridae]] | genus = '''''Utahraptor''''' | genus_authority = [[James Ian Kirkland|Kirkland]], [[Robert Gaston|Gaston]] & [[Donald L. Burge|Burge]], 1993 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = '''''U. ostrommaysorum''''' <small>(Kirkland, Gaston & Burge, 1993) ([[Type (zoology)|type]])</small> }} [[File:Utahraptor Restoration.png|thumb|200x200px|Life restoration of ''Utahraptor''.]] '''''Utahraptor''''' was a large mid-[[Cretaceous]] [[dromaeosaurid]] [[predator]] with 9-15 inch (23-38 cm) middle-toe [[claw]]s. It was a large, agile, bipedal (walked on two legs), [[bird]]-like [[dinosaur]]. It had a curved, flexible neck and a big head. Sharp, serrated [[teeth]] were set into very powerful [[jaw]]s. Each of its three fingers on each arm had large, sharp, curved claw. It had four-toed feet; the second toe had a 9-15 inch (23-38 cm) sickle-like claw and the other toes had smaller claws. Its long tail had bony rods running along the spine giving it rigidity; the tail was used for balance and fast turning ability. It had a relatively large brain and large, keen, eyes. Utahraptor was 16-23 feet (5-7 m) long and may have weighed about .5 ton. [[Category:Dromaeosauridae]]