Outline: a typical theropod
Kol
"foot"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Turner et al. 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Kol
What it was like
Kol was a small alvarezsaur known from a single foot. Its toe bones were tightly locked together, which may have helped it run fast.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. It comes from the Djadokhta Formation, a sandy land shared with Velociraptor, Protoceratops and the oviraptorid Citipati.
How it was found
Turner and colleagues named Kol in 2009. Its name is the Mongolian word for foot.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. H. Turner, S. J. Nesbitt, and M. A. Norell. 2009. A large alvarezsaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3648:1-14