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sharp-clawed runner
Boreonykus
Say it like this: “boh-ree-o-NY-kus”
Boreonykus certekorum
Boreonykus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2015 · Bell, P. R.; Currie, P. J.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.6 m · 5 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Canada · Wapiti
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Eudromaeosauria
The story in short
In 2015, P. R. Bell and P. J. Currie published the name Boreonykus.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Wapiti Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Boreonykus at a length near 1.6 m.
On the family tree it sits in Eudromaeosauria, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Acheroraptor
Acheroraptor temertyorum
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Bambiraptor
Bambiraptor feinbergi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Deinonychus
Deinonychus antirrhopus
Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Albian · Cenomanian) · roughly 113.2 to 93.9 million years ago