Yurgovuchia (meaning "coyote") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous period in what is now the Cedar Mountain Formation.
The holotype was collected by Donald D. DeBlieux in 2005, from Don's Place, part of the Doelling's Bowl bone bed in Grand County, Utah.
This bone bed is in the lower Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, dating probably to the Valanginian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 139–134.6 million years ago.
[1] The generic name is derived from the Ute word yurgovuch, meaning coyote, a predator of similar size to Y. doellingi which currently inhabits the same region.
[1][2][3] Yurgovuchia shared its environment and lived alongside other dinosaurs in the Lower Yellow Cat, such as the theropods Falcarius and Geminiraptor, the sauropods Mierasaurus and the large iguanodontians Iguanacolossus.