PAVICURSOR
a tiny pavicursorine alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
Pronunciation: PAR-vih-KUR-suh
Meaning: Small runner
Author/s: Karhu and Rautian (
1996)
Synonyms: See
below
First Discovery: Khulsan, Mongolia
Discovery Chart Position: #411
Parvicursor remotus
(Remote Small Runner)Etymology
Pavicursor is derived from the Latin "parvus" (small) and "cursor" (runner).
The
species epithet,
remotus (reh-MOH-tus), means "remote, far?off, distant" in Latin.
Ceratonykus oculatus? (Alfanov and Barsbold, 2009)
Linhenykus monodactylus? (Xu
et al., 2011)
Discovery
The remains of
Pavicursor were discovered in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan, Mongolia, in 1992.
The
holotype (PIN 4487/25) is a partial skeleton, mostly consisting of vertebrae, the pelvis and the right hindlimb.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 72 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Carnivore
References
• Karhu AA and Rautian AS (1996) "A new family of Maniraptora (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia".
Paleontological Journal Russian Academy of Sciences, 30(5): 583-592.
• Averianov AO and Lopatin AV (2022) "A re-appraisal of
Parvicursor remotus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: implications for the phylogeny and taxonomy of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaurs".
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 19(16): 1097-1128. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2021.2013965.
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