Genus
Valid Extinct

Shuuvuia

Chiappe et al. 1998

Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. It is a member of the family Alvarezsauridae, small coelurosaurian dinosaurs which are characterized by short but powerful forelimbs specialized for digging. The type species is Shuvuuia deserti, or "desert bird". The name Shuvuuia is derived from the Mongolian word shuvuu (шувуу) meaning "bird".

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
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Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Shuuvuia
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Skeletal reconstruction of Shuvuuia deserti © Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Alvarezsauria Infraorder
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Alvarezsauroidea Unranked clade
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Alvarezsauridae Family
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Parvicursorinae Subfamily
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Mononykini Unranked clade
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Shuuvuia Genus
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Bibliography
Original description
L. M. Chiappe, M. A. Norell, and J. M. Clark. 1998. The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus. Nature 392:275-278 DOI ↗