Bonapartenykus
Field photograph to come
Bonapartenykus
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Agnolin et al. 2012
Field notes
About Bonapartenykus
Bonapartenykus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Bonapartenykus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Allen Formation. It was named by Agnolin et al. in 2012.
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 Alvarezsauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. L. Agnolin, J. E. Powell, and F. E. Novas, M. Kundrát. 2012. New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs. Cretaceous Research 35(1):33-56