Nemegtonykus
Nemegtonykus (meaning "Nemegt claw" after the Nemegt Formation where it was found) is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation in Mongolia. The type and only species is Nemegtonykus citus. It is the second alvarezsaur known from the Nemegt Formation, the other being Mononykus.
| Nemegtonykus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Skeletal reconstruction of Nemegtonykus, showing known material, scale bar=10cm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Parvicursorinae |
| Genus: | †Nemegtonykus Lee et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Nemegtonykus citus Lee et al., 2019 | |
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