Shuvuuia
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| Shuvuuia Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Theropoda |
| Family: | Alvarezsauridae |
| Genus: | Shuvuuia Chiappe, Norell & Clark, 1998 |
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Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the later Cretaceous of Mongolia.
It is a member of the family Alvarezsauridae, small coelurosaurian dinosaurs which have short but powerful forelimbs specialized for digging. The name Shuvuuia is derived from the Mongolian word shuvuu meaning "bird".
