Editing Parvicursor (section)

== Taxonomy ==
There may be a second, yet-unnamed, species of ''Parvicursor''. Two specimens of tiny alvarezsaurids were described by Suzuki ''et al.'' in 2002. These authors considered the specimens to be juvenile ''[[Shuvuuia]]'', which lived in the same formation.<ref name="suzukietal2002">{{cite journal | last1 = Suzuki | first1 = S. | last2 = Chiappe | first2 = L.M. | last3 = Dyke | first3 = G.J. | last4 = Watabe | first4 = M. | last5 = Barsbold | first5 = R. | last6 = Tsogtbaatar | first6 = K. | year = 2002 | title = A new specimen of ''Shuvuuia deserti'' Chiappe, ''et al.'' 1998 from the Mongolian Late Cretaceous with a discussion of the relationships of alvarezsaurids to other theropod dinosaurs | journal = Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | volume = 494 | pages = 1–18 }}</ref> However, a study by Nick Longrich and [[Phil Currie]] in 2009 suggested that several characters of the skeleton, including fused wrist and pelvic bones, indicated that these specimens were in fact adults of a tiny alvarezsaurid species. A [[phylogenetic]] analysis found that they grouped together with ''Parvicursor'', and the authors provisionally referred them to ''Parvicursor sp.'' pending further study.<ref name=LC08>{{cite journal |last=Longrich |first=Nicholas R. |author2=Currie, Philip J. |year=2009 |title=''Albertonykus borealis'', a new alvarezsaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Alberta, Canada: Implications for the systematics and ecology of the Alvarezsauridae |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages= 239–252|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2008.07.005 |bibcode=2009CrRes..30..239L }}</ref>

It has been suggested that ''[[Linhenykus]]'' and ''[[Ceratonykus]]'' may be junior synonyms of ''Parvicursor''.<ref name=dyke2011>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dyke | first1 = G. J. | last2 = Naish | first2 = D. | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1101602108 | title = What about European alvarezsauroids? | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume = 108 | issue = 22 | pages = E147 | year = 2011 | pmid =  21540333| pmc = 3107280| bibcode = 2011PNAS..108E.147D | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Averianov"/>