Genus: Talos ZANNO, VARRICCHIO, O’CONNOR, TITUS, & KNELL, 2011
Etymology: Greek, Talos, referring to the mythological, fleetfooted protector of Crete, often depicted as winged , who succumbed to a wound on the ankle. The name is also a play on the English word "talon" meaning a sharply hooked claw.

Species: sampsoni ZANNO, VARRICCHIO, O’CONNOR, TITUS, & KNELL, 2011
Etymology: In honor of Scott D. Sampson, architect of the Kaiparowits Basin Project.

Holotype: UMNH VP 19479

Locality: "The Blues" Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Garfield County, south-central Utah.

Horizon: Middle portion of the "Middle Unit", Kaiparowits Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Judithian Age, Upper Campanian Stage, Upper Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Partial postcranial skeleton, including fragmentary portion of the dorsal, sacral, and caudal axial column, left ulna, additonal forelimb fragments, a partial pelvis, and partial left and right hind limbs.

Note: Pathology on the left foot phalanx II-1, broken and healed.

Maxilla.

Talos sampsoni (modified from ZANNO, et al., 2011), Holotype: UMNH VP 19479.