Nemegtonykus Lee et al. 2019 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: S. Lee, J.-Y. Park, Y.-N. Lee, S.-H. Kim, J., R. Barsbold, and K. Tsogtbaatar. 2019. A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Scientific Reports 9:15493:1-12

Parent taxon: Alvarezsauroidea according to K. Kubo et al. 2023

See also Averianov and Lopatin 2021 and Lee et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Alvarezsauridae, Bannykus, Bonapartenykus, Haplocheirus, Patagonykinae, Patagonykus, Qiupanykus, Tugulusaurus, Xiyunykus

Subtaxa: Nemegtonykus citus

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Altan Ula III [KID] (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

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