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Dzharacursor

"Dzharakuduk runner"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dzharacursor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Dzharacursor
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Uzbekistan
Food
Omnivore
Clade
Ornithomimidae
Dzharacursor reconstruction by Ddinodan
Reconstruction · Ddinodan (CC-BY)

Dzharacursor (meaning “Dzharakuduk runner”) is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian age) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. The type and only species is Dzharacursor bissektensis, originally assigned to the genus Archaeornithomimus.

What we know

  • Named by (Nesov, 1995).
  • Fossils found in Uzbekistan.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Dzharacursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.