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sharp-clawed runner
Albinykus
Say it like this: “al-bih-NY-kus”
Albinykus baatar
Albinykus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian) · roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · Nesbitt, S. J.; Clarke, J. A.; Turner, A. H.; Norell, M. A.
- Hip height
- 0.3 m · 1 ft
- Length
- 0.8 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- 1 kg · 2 lb
- Found in
- Mongolia · Javkhlant
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Parvicursorinae
The story in short
In 2011, S. J. Nesbitt and colleagues published the name Albinykus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Albinykus date to the Late Cretaceous (Santonian · Campanian), roughly 85.7 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Javkhlant Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Albinykus at a length near 0.8 m, hips about 0.3 m high, and a body mass around 1 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Parvicursorinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.