#boreonykus

[mirkokosmos]

A pair of Boreonykus feeding on the corpse of a Pachyrhinosaurs Lakustai

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Boreonykus certekorum

Source Update: Yo, Ryuu here, made some adjustments to the Dinomas pic so it’s a little more presentable for the article XD Source: @ryuukibart! Apparently no one has drawn this except for Ryuu, and for Dinomas, so, that’s the art for this article! Apparently!

Name: Boreonykus certekorum

Name Meaning: Boreal Claw

First Described: 2015

Described By: Bell & Currie

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauridae, Eudromaeosauria, Velociraptorinae

Described just this year, Boreonykus is a new genus of dromaeosaur found in the Wapiti Formation in Alberta, Canada. It lived in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, about 73 million years ago. Its environment was a floodplain with quite a few Pachyrhinosaurus fossils, and Boreonykus itself is known from some limited material, including teeth and claws, vertebrae, and other bones. It was about the sam size as Saurornitholestes, a little less than 2 meters long. 

Source:

Bell, P. R., P. J. Currie. 2015. A high-latitude dromaeosaurid, Boreonykus certekorum, gen. et sp. nov. (Theropoda), from the upper Campanian Wapiti Formation, west-central Alberta. 

Shout out goes to @gena8557!

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Your Fave is Problematica: Boreonykus

Based on part of a frontal bone

Third time’s the charm?

Nope. Might not be a dromaeosaurid either.

You know what? I give up. Why do people keep naming dromaeosaurids for part of a frontal? Whyyy?