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Alvarezsauridae

Ondogurvel

"egg lizard"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ondogurvel 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Ondogurvel
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (72.1 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Alvarezsauridae

Ondogurvel (meaning “egg lizard”) is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Barun Goyot Formation in southern Mongolia. The type and only species is O. alifanovi, known from a partial skeleton consisting of fragments of two last dorsal vertebrae, three anterior sacral vertebrae, right ilium, left and right pubis and ischium, articulated right tibia, fibula, metatarsals II and IV, and phalanges IV-1 and IV-2, right carpometacarpus, left and right manual phalanx II-1, right femur, left pedal phalanx II-1, and fragments of unidentified phalanges.

What we know

  • Named by Averianov & Lopatin, 2022.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Ondogurvel — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.