Borogovia

Named after the "borogove", a thin shabby-looking bird in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"

• borogove · English (invented by Lewis Carroll) · a thin, shabby-looking bird in 'Jabberwocky'
• -ia · Latin · Latin noun-forming suffix used in genus names

The name comes from the "borogoves" in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" (from Through the Looking-Glass), described there as thin, shabby-looking birds. It fits because Borogovia was a slender, bird-like troodontid theropod. The name is a Latinised form of Carroll's invented word, not a Greek or Latin compound.

Named by

Osmólska

Year named

1987

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Altan Ula IV, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

A small troodontid theropod. The only species is Borogovia gracilicrus ("slender leg"). It is known from very incomplete remains, mainly hindlimb bones, so its exact relationships within Troodontidae are uncertain.