Boreonykus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Boreonykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (73.27 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Canada · India · Alberta, Canada
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Boreonykus is an extinct genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur, that lived during the Late Cretaceous in the area of present Canada.
Fragmentary dromaeosaurid remains were discovered in the 1980s at the Pipestone Creek site in central Alberta during excavations of a bonebed containing at least twenty-seven individuals of the ceratopsid Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai. They were initially partly referred to a Saurornitholestes sp in 2001.
What we know
- Named by Bell & Currie, 2015.
- Fossils found in Asia and Canada.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Boreonykus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.