Suskityrannus
"coyote tyrant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Suskityrannus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- 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 The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Suskityrannus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.