Ornitholestes

Ornitholestes is a small theropod dinosaur of the lateJurassic of Western Laurasia.

To date, Ornitholestes is known only from a single partial skeleton with a badly crushed skull found at the Bone Cabin Quarry near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, in 1900. It was described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1903. An incomplete hand was later attributed to Ornitholestes, although it now appears to belong toTanycolagreus. The type species is O. hermanni. The specific name honors the American Museum of Natural History preparator Adam Hermann.