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Siats
Extinct genus of theropod dinosaur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the genus of dinosaur. "Siats" can also mean a man-eating monster in the Ute mythology from which the genus was named after.
Siats (/see-ats/) is an extinct genus of large theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, United States. It contains a single species, Siats meekerorum.[1][2] It was initially classified as a megaraptoran, a clade of large theropods with very controversial relationships. Siats may be a neovenatorid allosauroid,[1] a coelurosaur of uncertain phylogenetic position,[3] or a tyrannosauroid.[4]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Tetanurae |
Clade: | Orionides |
Clade: | Avetheropoda |
Genus: | †Siats Zanno & Makovicky, 2013 |
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†Siats meekerorum Zanno & Makovicky, 2013 |
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