Outline: a typical theropod
Yurgovuchia
"coyote"
- Lived
- 139 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Senter et al. 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Yurgovuchia
What it was like
Yurgovuchia was a raptor, a feathered hunter with a sickle claw on each foot, known from backbones and some other bones. It was a relative of Dromaeosaurus.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Utah, in the United States. Its bones come from the Cedar Mountain Formation, where it shared the land with the giant raptor Utahraptor and the armored Gastonia.
How it was found
Senter and colleagues named Yurgovuchia in 2012, from a single find. Its name comes from a word for coyote in a local native language.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. Senter, J. I. Kirkland, and D. D. DeBlieux, S. Madsen, N. Toth. 2012. New dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the evolution of the dromaeosaurid tail. PLoS ONE 7(5):e36790