Kiyacursor
Field photograph to come
Kiyacursor
DV-1246 · type species Kiyacursor longipes
- Lived
- 121 to 113 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Noasauridae
- Found in
- Russia
- Named by
- Averianov et al. 2024
Field notes
About Kiyacursor
Kiyacursor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 113 million years ago. It belongs to the family Noasauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Kiyacursor, from Russia. Its fossils come from the Ilek Formation. It was named by Averianov et al. in 2024.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
115 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Noasauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. O. Averianov, P. P. Skutschas, and A. A. Atuchin, D. A. Slobodin, O. A. Feofanova, O. N. Vladimirova. 2024. The last ceratosaur of Asia: a new noasaurid from the Early Cretaceous Great Siberian Refugium. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2023):20240537:1-9