Archaeocursor asiaticus
"old runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Archaeocursor 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Archaeocursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.