Khulsanurus

Field photograph to come

DV-1144Baruungoyot Fm., Mongolia

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

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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