Patagonykus

DV-0372 · type species Patagonykus puertai

Lived: 94 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Novas 1994

Field notes

About Patagonykus

Patagonykus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 86 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Patagonykus, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Portezuelo Formation. It was named by Novas in 1994.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Alvarezsauroidea.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. E. Novas. 1994. Patagonykus puertai n. gen. et sp., and the phylogenetic relationships of the Alvarezsauridae (Theropoda, Maniraptora). VI Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, R. Cúneo (ed), Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew Abstracts