Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: X. Xu, J. Choiniere, Q.-W. Tan, R. B. J. Benson, J. Clark, C. Sullivan, Q. Zhao, F.-L. Han, Q.-Y. Ma, Y.-M. He, S. Wang, H. Xing, and L. Tan. 2018. Two early Cretaceous fossils document transitional stages in alvarezsaurian dinosaur evolution. Current Biology 28:2853-2860

Parent taxon: Alvarezsauroidea according to K. Kubo et al. 2023

See also Xu et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Alvarezsauridae, Bannykus, Bonapartenykus, Haplocheirus, Nemegtonykus, Patagonykinae, Patagonykus, Qiupanykus, Tugulusaurus

Subtaxa: Xiyunykus pengi

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Xiyunykus-type locality (Cretaceous of China)

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