Parvicursor

Field photograph to come

DV-0394Baruungoyot Fm., Mongolia

Parvicursor

DV-0394

Lived
84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Theropods, Alvarezsauridae
Found in
Mongolia
Named by
Karhu and Rautian 1996

Field notes

About Parvicursor

Parvicursor 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 Parvicursor, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Baruungoyot Formation. It was named by Karhu and Rautian in 1996.

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. A. Karhu and A. S. Rautian. 1996. A new family of Maniraptora (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30(5):583-592