Kol ghuva
Kol ghuva | |
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Life restoration as an alvarezsauroid, depicted feeding from a termite mound
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Genus: | †Kol Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell, 2009 |
Species: | †K. ghuva
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Binomial name | |
†Kol ghuva Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell, 2009
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Kol (from the
Because of the incomplete nature of the type specimen (catalog number IGM 100/2011), the exact relationship of Kol to other coelurosaurs has been difficult to determine. However, Kol shows an extreme arctometatarsalian condition of the foot bones, in which the middle metatarsal is severely pinched between the outer bones (usually considered an adaptation for fast running, also seen in ornithomimosaurs and tyrannosaurs). It has been estimated at 1.8–2.4 metres (5.9–7.9 ft) in length and 20–24 kilograms (44–53 lb) in body mass, making it one of the largest members of the group.[2][3]
The genus was originally placed in the family Alvarezsauridae.[1] Some studies have instead recovered Kol outside the Alvarezsauridae,[4][5] more closely related to Avimimus within the Oviraptorosauria, and a recent study of Mongolian alvarezsaurids excluded Kol from the Alvarezsauridae.[6]
References
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- ^ Molina-Pérez & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Spain: Larousse. p. 269.
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