Albertonykus
Field photograph to come
Albertonykus
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Alvarezsauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Longrich and Currie 2009
Field notes
About Albertonykus
Albertonykus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Alvarezsauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Albertonykus, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was named by Longrich and Currie in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Alvarezsauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: N. R. Longrich and P. J. Currie. 2009. Albertonykus borealis, a new alvarezsaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Alberta, Canada: implications for the systematics and ecology of the Alvarezsauridae. Cretaceous Research 30(1):239-252