Archaeocursor asiaticus Archaeocursor
"old runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Archaeocursor 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Archaeocursor (meaning “old runner”) is an extinct genus of basal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic Ziliujing Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, A. asiaticus, known from a single femur. Archaeocursor represents the oldest and most basal ornithischian described from Asia.
What we know
- Named by Yao et al., 2025.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.