Saurornitholestes
| Saurornitholestes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Possible Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary record | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction of S. langstoni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 Saskatchewan) 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.