Enigmacursor
Field photograph to come
Enigmacursor
DV-1274 · type species Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae
- Lived
- 155 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early ornithischians
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Maidment and Barrett 2025
Field notes
About Enigmacursor
Enigmacursor was a plant-eating early ornithischian that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 155 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Enigmacursor, from Colorado. Its fossils come from the Morrison Formation. It was named by Maidment and Barrett in 2025.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Neornithischia.
- NanosaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AgilisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- PulaosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- YandusaurusMiddle Jurassic
- MinimocursorLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- HexinlusaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- SanxiasaurusEarly Jurassic to Middle Jurassic
- StormbergiaEarly Jurassic
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. C. R. Maidment and P. M. Barrett. 2025. Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA. Royal Society Open Science 12(6):242195