Diluvicursor
"flood"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Diluvicursor 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.2 m (3.9 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (113–112 Mya)
- Place
- Australia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Diluvicursor (“flood runner”) is a genus of small ornithischian from the Lower Albian (Early Cretaceous) of Australia. It is known from one species, the type species D. pickeringi. The two known specimens, a vertebra and a partial juvenile postcranium discovered in 2005 from the Eumeralla Formation, are known, and they were named in early 2018.
What we know
- Named by Herne et al., 2018.
- Body length estimated at about 1.2 m.
- Fossils found in Australia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Diluvicursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.