Genus: Qayaqgruk SHELLEY, EBERLE, ERICKSON & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025
Etymology: Inupiaq, Qayaq (the legendary Inupiq hero wanderer) + -gruk, a suffix that often implies "a smalle version of somehting"; "LIttle Qayaq." Qayaq's hero status also slludes to the suffice "baatar," Mongolian for "hero" and Qayaqgruk's phylogenetic position with the Djadochtatherioidea, taxas in which are called something-Baatar.

Species: peregrinus SHELLEY, EBERLE, ERICKSON & DRUCKENMILLER, 2025
Etymology: Latin, peregrinus, "wanderer or traveller", reinforcing Qayaq's lengendary journeys and alluding to taxon's close phylogenetic affinities with th eMongolian Djadochtatherioidea. "The little wanding Qayaq (hero)."

Holotype: UAMES 34483

Locality: Pediomys Point, Colville River, North Slope, Northern Alaska.

Note: Exact locality information is on record with the Bureau of Land Management Fairbanks District Office in Fairbankds, Alaska, adn teh University of Alaska Museum.

Horizon: Prince Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age:Late Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Upper left ultimate premolar, P4.