Nemegtonykus
"Nemegt claw"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nemegtonykus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Nemegtonykus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.