Boreonykus
Field photograph to come
Boreonykus
DV-0944
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- Canada
- Named by
- Bell and Currie 2016
Field notes
About Boreonykus
Boreonykus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Boreonykus, from Alberta. Its fossils come from the Wapiti Formation. It was named by Bell and Currie in 2016.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. R. Bell and P. J. Currie. 2016. A high-latitude dromaeosaurid, Boreonykus certekorum, gen. et sp. nov. (Theropoda), from the upper Campanian Wapiti Formation, west-central Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1034359:1-9