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Ondogurvel
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, (Campanian), 72.1  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Alvarezsauridae
Subfamily: Parvicursorinae
Genus: Ondogurvel
Averianov & Lopatin, 2022
Species:
O. alifanovi
Binomial name
Ondogurvel alifanovi
Averianov & Lopatin, 2022

Ondogurvel (IPA: [ɒndɒɡurw̜iɮ] ) (meaning "egg lizard") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Barun Goyot Formation in southern Mongolia. The type and only species is O. alifanovi, known from a partial skeleton consisting of fragments of two last dorsal vertebrae, three anterior sacral vertebrae, right ilium, left and right pubis and ischium, articulated right tibia, fibula, metatarsals II and IV, and phalanges IV-1 and IV-2, right carpometacarpus, left and right manual phalanx II-1, right femur, left pedal phalanx II-1, and fragments of unidentified phalanges. [1]

Discovery and naming

In 2022, the type species Ondogurvel alifanovi was named and described by Alexander O. Averianov and Alexey V. Lopatin. The generic name, "Ondogurvel" combines the Mongolian words өндөг “ondo” (IPA: [ɒndɒ] ), meaning egg, and гүрвэл “gurvel” (IPA: [ɡurw̜iɮ] ), meaning lizard. The specific name, "alifanovi" (IPA: [ɑːlɪfɑːnɔːvaɪ] ) honors the late Russian paleontologist Vladimir Alifanov who found the holotype specimen (PIN 5838/1) in 1999. [1]

Description

Ondogurvel was a bipedal theropod. Like other parvicursorines, it had a robust humerus, and long hindlimbs suggesting a cusorial lifestyle. It is unique in that, unlike all other alvarezsaurids, it has metartarsals II and IV completely fused along their contact area. [1]

The following differences from the Parvicursor , another parvicursorine from the Barun Goyot Formation, were identified by Averianov & Lopatin (2022): [1]

On the other hand, describers noted that the femora of Ondogurvel and Parvicursor are almost identical. [1] Mickey Mortimer has suggested that Ondogurvel may be a junior synonym of Parvicursor, which is known only from a juvenile individual. [2]

Classification

Averianov and Lopatin (2022) place Ondogurvel in the alvarezsaurid subfamily Parvicursorinae which are classified by their manus morphology. They recovered that Ondogurvel formed a clade with Xixianykus and Albinykus which have proximally co-ossified metatarsals II and IV. The describing paper also proposes that the "drastic difference in the morphology of the carpometacarpus [across Parvicursorinae] may suggest a deep divergence between the parvicursorine lineages represented by [ Dzharaonyx ] – Linhenykus and MononykusOndogurvel".

Phylogeny after Averianov & Lopatin (2022): [1]

Alvarezsauridae

Paleoecology

Nemegtomaia , an oviraptorosaur, is also known from the Nemegt locality of the Mongolian Barun Goyot Formation. [3] Other localities from the formation have yielded dinosaurs including other alvarezsaurids ( Ceratonykus, [4] Khulsanurus, [5] and Parvicursor [6] ), as well as dromaeosaurs ( Hulsanpes , [7] Kuru, [8] and Shri [9] ), oviraptorosaurs ( Conchoraptor and Heyuannia ), [10] a sauropod ( Quaesitosaurus ), [11] ceratopsians ( Bagaceratops and Breviceratops ), [12] a pachycephalosaur ( Tylocephale ), [13] and ankylosaurs ( Saichania , [14] Tarchia , [15] and Zaraapelta [16] ).

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