Bannykus Bannykus

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bannykus 2.8 m (9.1 ft) long
2 people holding hands
Length
2.8 m (9.1 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (125–113 Mya)
Place
China · Mongolia
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Bannykus is an extinct genus of alvarezsauroid from the Early Cretaceous Bayin-Gobi Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. It includes one species, Bannykus wulatensis.

What we know

  • Named by Xu et al., 2018.
  • Body length estimated at about 2.77 m.
  • Fossils found in China and Mongolia.