Shuvuuia
Field photograph to come
Shuvuuia
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- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- about 0.6 m (2 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Alvarezsauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Chiappe et al. 1998
Field notes
About Shuvuuia
Shuvuuia 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 3 finds of Shuvuuia, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Djadokhta Formation. It was named by Chiappe et al. in 1998.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Shuvuuia?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Alvarezsauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. M. Chiappe, M. A. Norell, and J. M. Clark. 1998. The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus. Nature 392:275-278