Parvicursor Parvicursor
"small runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Parvicursor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Alvarezsauridae
Parvicursor (meaning “small runner”) is a genus of very small alvarezsaurid maniraptoran dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. It had long, slender legs adapted for fast running.
What we know
- Named by Karhu & Rautian, 1996.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.