Dzharaonyx
| Dzharaonyx Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Parvicursorinae |
| Genus: | †Dzharaonyx Averianov & Sues, 2022 |
| Species: | †D. eski |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dzharaonyx eski Averianov & Sues, 2022 | |
Dzharaonyx (meaning "Dzharakuduk claw", named after the type locality) is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. The type species is Dzharaonyx eski; eski being an Uzbek word for "old".[1]
Description
Dzharaonyx is known from a series of disassociated but well-preserved postcranial material. The form of the humerus is intermediate between that of Patagonykus and Mononykus.[1]
Classification
Phylogenetic analysis places Dzharaonyx in a polytomy including other Asian members of Parvicursorinae. This makes it the oldest parvicursorine known to date.[1]
| Alvarezsauridae |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paleoenvironment
Dzharaonyx lived in the Bissekty Formation, which has been intensively studied in recent years. It represents a brackish environment.[3] It coexisted with larger theropods including the dromaeosaurid Itemirus, the tyrannosauroid Timurlengia, and the troodontid Urbacodon. The hadrosaur Levnesovia, ankylosaurs, and the sauropod Dzharatitanis represented the herbivores in this ecosystem.
References
- ^ a b c Averianov AO, Sues HD (2022). "New material and diagnosis of a new taxon of alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41 (5): e2036174. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.2036174. S2CID 247391327.
- ^ Averianov AO, Lopatin AV (2022). "A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia". Cretaceous Research. 134: 105168. Bibcode:2022CrRes.13505168A. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105168. S2CID 247000540.
- ^ Redman, C.M.; Leighton, L.R. (2009), "Multivariate faunal analysis of the Turonian Bissekty Formation: Variation in the degree of marine influence in temporally and spatially averaged fossil assemblages", PALAIOS, 24 (1): 18–26, Bibcode:2009Palai..24...18R, doi:10.2110/palo.2007.p07-072r, retrieved 2019-03-22
