Outline: a typical theropod
Almas
Type species Almas ukhaa
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Pei et al. 2017
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Almas
What it was like
Almas was a small troodontid, a feathered, big-eyed theropod. It is known from a skull and part of a skeleton. It was related to Byronosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Djadokhta Formation, a dry land of sand dunes shared with Velociraptor, Protoceratops and the oviraptor Citipati.
How it was found
Pei and colleagues named it in 2017. The type species is Almas ukhaa. It is named after a wild man of Mongolian folklore.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Pei, M. A. Norell, and D. E. Barta, G. S. Bever, M. Pittman, X. Xu. 2017. Osteology of a new Late Cretaceous troodontid specimen from Ukhaa Tolgod, Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3889:1-47