Nemegtonykus

Field photograph to come

DV-1070Nemegt Fm., Mongolia

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

1 find

70 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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