Ondogurvel

Field photograph to come

DV-1187Baruungoyot Fm., Mongolia

Ondogurvel

DV-1187

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods, Alvarezsauridae
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Averianov and Lopatin 2022

Field notes

About Ondogurvel

Ondogurvel 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 Ondogurvel, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baruungoyot Formation. It was named by Averianov and Lopatin in 2022.

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. 2022. A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Cretaceous Research 135:105168