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sharp-clawed runner
Kansaignathus
Kansaignathus sogdianus
Kansaignathus ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in TJ.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Averianov, A. O.; Lopatin, A. V.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- TJ · Yalovach
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Velociraptorinae
The story in short
In 2021, A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin published the name Kansaignathus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Santonian), roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago. Finds come from TJ, including the Yalovach Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Kansaignathus at a length near 2 m.
On the family tree it sits in Velociraptorinae, among the theropod dinosaurs.