Isasicursor
"Isasi"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Isasicursor 50 cm (1.6 ft) long
about the size of a house cat
- Length
- 50 cm (1.6 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Isasicursor (meaning “Isasi’s runner” after Marcelo Pablo Isasi) is an extinct genus of elasmarian ornithopod dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous Chorrillo Formation of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The genus contains a single species, Isasicursor santacrucensis. It was a contemporary of the titanosaur sauropod Nullotitan, which was described in the same paper.
What we know
- Named by Novas et al., 2019.
- Body length estimated at about 0.5 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Isasicursor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.