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sharp-clawed runner
Parvicursor
Say it like this: “PAR-vi-KUHR-sor”
Parvicursor remotus
Parvicursor ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 1996 · Karhu, A. A.; Rautian, A. S.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Mongolia · Baruungoyot
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Parvicursorinae
The story in short
The genus Parvicursor dates to 1996, the year A. A. Karhu and A. S. Rautian described it. The name means “small runner.”
Fossils referred to Parvicursor date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Baruungoyot Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Parvicursor are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Parvicursorinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.