Nemegtonykus Nemegtonykus
"Nemegt claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nemegtonykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Nemegtonykus (meaning “Nemegt claw”) is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous ( Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Nemegtonykus citus. It is the second alvarezsaurid known from the Nemegt Formation, preceded by Mononykus.
What we know
- Named by Lee et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.