Nemegtonykus
Field photograph to come
Nemegtonykus
DV-1070
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Lee et al. 2019
Field notes
About Nemegtonykus
Nemegtonykus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Nemegtonykus, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Lee et al. in 2019.
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 DatabaseNamed in: S. Lee, J.-Y. Park, and Y.-N. Lee, S.-H. Kim, J. Lü, R. Barsbold, K. Tsogtbaatar. 2019. A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Scientific Reports 9:15493:1-12