Khulsanurus
Field photograph to come
Khulsanurus
DV-1144
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Alvarezsauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Averianov and Lopatin 2021
Field notes
About Khulsanurus
Khulsanurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Alvarezsauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Khulsanurus, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baruungoyot Formation. It was named by Averianov and Lopatin in 2021.
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 Alvarezsauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2021. The second taxon of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Khulsan locality in Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Historical Biology