Kiyacursor longipes Kiyacursor
"Kiya River runner"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kiyacursor 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Asia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Noasauridae
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.