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Yurgovuchia

Say it: YUR-go-VOO-chee-uh

Name means: “coyote”1

Ate: MeatRaptorsEarly Cretaceous

Yurgovuchia was a small, fast, feathered raptor that lived in what is now Utah, USA. It was about the size of a coyote and probably hunted smaller animals with its sharp claws and teeth.1 2

Lived

139 to 133 million years ago3

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Grand County, Utah, USA1 2

Food

Meat3

Length

2.5 m1

estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

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Yurgovuchia gets its name from the Ute word for coyote, because it was a similar size and lived in the same area.1 2

Its fossils were found in the Doelling's Bowl bone bed in Utah, and the species name honors geologist Helmut Doelling.1 2

Yurgovuchia was a dromaeosaurid, meaning it was a close relative of famous raptors like Velociraptor.1 2

The holotype skeleton includes vertebrae and part of a pubic bone, and the bones show it was an adult when it died.1 2

It lived about 139 to 134 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period.1 3

AI-made picture of Yurgovuchia — An AI-made picture of how Yurgovuchia might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Yurgovuchia

?How big was Yurgovuchia?

About 2.5 metres long, which is similar in size to a large wolf.1

?What did Yurgovuchia eat?

It was a meat-eater that probably hunted smaller animals with its sharp claws and teeth.1

?When did Yurgovuchia live?

It lived about 139 to 134.6 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.1

?Is Yurgovuchia a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is a dromaeosaurid theropod, a close relative of Velociraptor.1

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Scientific name: Yurgovuchia
Named by: Senter et al. 20123
Group: Raptors
Family / clade: Dromaeosauridae3
Classification: Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae3
Age of the rocks: 139 to 133 million years (Berriasian / Valanginian)3
Rock formations: Cedar Mountain3
Countries: USA3
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Yurgovuchia was named in 2012 by Phil Senter and colleagues. The fossils were collected by Donald D. DeBlieux in 2005 from the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah.1 2
Still debated: Scientists are still not sure exactly how large Yurgovuchia grew, because only one partial skeleton has been found.1

Where the facts come from

Yurgovuchia (en.wikipedia.org)
New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Yurgovuchia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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