Suskityrannus Suskityrannus
"coyote tyrant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Suskityrannus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (93.9–89.8 Mya)
- Place
- North America · Mexico · New Mexico, USA
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Suskityrannus (meaning “coyote tyrant”, suski meaning “coyote” in Zuni) is a genus of small tyrannosauroid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of southern Laramidia. It contains a single species, Suskityrannus hazelae, and the type specimen was found in the Turonian-aged Moreno Hill Formation of the Zuni Basin in western New Mexico.
What we know
- Named by Nesbitt et al., 2019.
- Fossils found in North America and Mexico.