Ondogurvel

Ondogurvel
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, (Campanian), 72.1 Ma
Life reconstruction of O. alifanovi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Alvarezsauridae
Subfamily: Parvicursorinae
Genus: Ondogurvel
Averianov & Lopatin, 2022
Species:
O. alifanovi
Binomial name
Ondogurvel alifanovi
Averianov & Lopatin, 2022

Ondogurvel (IPA: [ɒndɒɡurw̜iɮ]) (meaning "egg lizard") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Barun Goyot Formation in southern Mongolia. The type and only species is O. alifanovi, known from a partial skeleton consisting of fragments of two last dorsal vertebrae, three anterior sacral vertebrae, right ilium, left and right pubis and ischium, articulated right tibia, fibula, metatarsals II and IV, and phalanges IV-1 and IV-2, right carpometacarpus, left and right manual phalanx II-1, right femur, left pedal phalanx II-1, and fragments of unidentified phalanges.[1]

  1. ^ Alexander O. Averianov; Alexey V. Lopatin (2022-02-19). "A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia". Cretaceous Research. 135: 105168. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105168. S2CID 247000540.