Suspect Profiles

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Name - Deinonychus
Description - 10 feet long, 150 pounds, huge 5 inch-long claw on each of hind feet, dagger-like saw-edged teeth and powerful front limbs armed with sharp claws.
Habits - probably traveled in packs, meat-eater.
Last seen - Early Cretaceous, about 105 million years ago, Central Texas.

Name - Coelophysis
Description - 10 feet, 60 pounds, small, agile, fast-moving, moved in large packs.
Habits - meat-eater taking smaller prey and larger ones by team effort.
Last seen - Late Triassic, about 220 million years ago, Texas Panhandle, although many skeletons found in New Mexico.

Name - Pleurocoelus
Description - 45 feet, 10 tons, giant dinosaur that probably walked on its front toes.
Habits - traveled in groups
Last seen - Early Cretaceous, about 105 million years ago, Central Texas.

Name - Tenontosaurus
Description - 20 feet, 1 ton, powerful, tail, may have used for defense. An ornithopod, capable of standing on two legs. Known as an ornithopod. Nicknames: "bird foot" or "duck-bill"
Habits - plant eater. Teeth of Deinonyshcus often seen with bones of Tenontosaurus.
Last seen - Early Cretaceous, 110 - 105 million years ago, Central Texas.

Name - Acrocanthosaurus
Description - 30 feet, 3 tons, very sharp serrated teeth, powerful front forelimbs and sharp claws, spiny ridge along back.
Habits - meat-eater, may also have been a scavenger.
Last seen -Early Cretaceous, about 105 million years ago, Central Texas.

Name - Tyrannosaurus
Description - 39 feet, 6.5 tons, powerful, sharp teeth, large head. Considered extremely dangerous!
Habits - solitary meat-eater, probably also ate carrion (dead meat).
Last seen - Late Cretaceous, 65 million years ago, Big Bend region.