Outline: a typical theropod
Qiupanykus
"Qiupa claw"
Type species Qiupanykus zhangi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Lü et al. 2018
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Qiupanykus
What it was like
Qiupanykus was a small alvarezsaur, a bird-like dinosaur with short arms and long legs. It is known from part of a skeleton.
An eggshell found with its bones may be from an oviraptor egg, and some scientists think these small animals cracked open eggs to eat.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now central China. Its bones come from the Qiupa Formation, where it shared the land with the tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus, the ostrich-like Qiupalong and the raptor Luanchuanraptor.
How it was found
Lü and colleagues named Qiupanykus in 2018, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Alvarezsauroidea
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J.-C. Lü, L. Xu, and H.-L. Chang, S.-H. Jia, J. M. Zhang, D.-S. Gao, Y.-Y. Zhang, C.-J. Zhang, F. Ding. 2018. A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China. China Geology 1:28-35