Suskityrannus
Field photograph to come
Suskityrannus
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- Lived
- 94 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Nesbitt et al. 2019
Field notes
About Suskityrannus
Suskityrannus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 94 to 90 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Suskityrannus, from New Mexico. Its fossils come from the Moreno Hill Formation. It was named by Nesbitt et al. in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. J. Nesbitt, R. K. Denton, and M. A. Loewen, S. L. Brusatte, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, J. I. Kirkland, A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe. 2019. A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(6):892-899