| Kuru | |
|---|---|
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| An artist's illustration of K. kulla | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Velociraptorinae |
| Genus: | †Kuru Napoli et al., 2021 |
| Type species | |
| †Kuru kulla Napoli et al., 2021 | |
Kuru is an extinct genus of dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It was discovered in Khulsan, Gobi Desert in 1991 and was informally dubbed "Airakoraptor" thanks to a fictitious bibliographic entry in the bibliography of the paper describing Achillobator titled "Morphology Dromaeosaurian dinosaur-Airakoraptor from the upper cretaceous of Mongolia". However, the 1991 volume of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology contains no such publication, and this bibliographic entry is erroneous and a typo for an SVP 1992 abstract titled "New Dromaeosaur material from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". The specimen informally dubbed "Airakoraptor", IGM 100/981, which was reported in the SVP abstract, was formally named Kuru kulla by Napoli et al. (2021) and is a member of Velociraptorinae along with Velociraptor, Linheraptor, and Tsaagan.
References[]
Napoli, James G.; Ruebenstahl, Alexander A.; Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S.; Turner, Alan H.; Norell, Mark A. (2021-11). "A New Dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Coelurosauria) from Khulsan, Central Mongolia". American Museum Novitates. 2021 (3982): 1–47. doi:10.1206/3982.1. hdl:2246/7286. ISSN 0003-0082.
Norell, Clark and Perle, 1992. New dromaeosaur material from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3): 45A.
Norell and Makovicky, 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton II: Information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. American Museum Novitates 3282, 45 pp.
Perle, Norell and Clark, 1999. A new maniraptoran Theropod - Achillobator giganticus (Dromaeosauridae) - from the Upper Cretaceous of Burkhant, Mongolia. Contribution no. 101 of the Mongolian-American Paleontological Project. 1-105.