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Noasauridae

Kiyacursor longipes

"Kiya River runner"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kiyacursor 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Kiyacursor
Length
2.5 m (8.2 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
Place
Asia
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Noasauridae
Kiyacursor reconstruction by Petr Menshikov (https://twitter.com/Petr75113553; https://vk.com/prehistoricprod
Reconstruction · Petr Menshikov (https://twitter.com/Petr75113553; https://vk.com/prehistoricprod (CC-BY)

Kiyacursor (meaning “Kiya River runner”) is an extinct genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Ilek Formation of Russia. The genus contains a single species, K. longipes, known from a partial skeleton. Kiyacursor represents the first Early Cretaceous ceratosaur discovered in Asia, as well as the second non-avian theropod named from Russia, after Kileskus in 2010.

What we know

  • Named by Averianov et al., 2024.
  • Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
  • Fossils found in Asia.

What we guess

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