Nemegtonykus
| Nemegtonykus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal reconstruction of Nemegtonykus, showing known material, scale bar=10cm | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Parvicursorinae |
| Genus: | †Nemegtonykus Lee et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Nemegtonykus citus Lee et al., 2019
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Nemegtonykus (meaning "Nemegt claw") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Nemegtonykus citus. It is the second alvarezsaurid known from the Nemegt Formation, preceded by Mononykus.