Look up · dinosaur 675 of 1,425
sharp-clawed runner
Kiyacursor
Say it like this: “KEE-yuh-CUR-suh”
Kiyacursor longipes
Kiyacursor ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Russia.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Aptian) · roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2024 · Averianov, A. O.; Skutschas, P. P.; Atuchin, A. A.; Slobodin, D. A.; Feofanova, O. A.; Vladimirova, O. N.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 2.5 m · 8 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Russia · Ilek
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Noasauridae
The story in short
In 2024, A. O. Averianov and colleagues published the name Kiyacursor. The name means “kiya River runner.”
Fossils referred to Kiyacursor date to the Early Cretaceous (Aptian), roughly 121.4 to 113.2 million years ago. Finds come from Russia, including the Ilek Formation. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Kiyacursor at a length near 2.5 m.
On the family tree it sits in Noasauridae, among the theropod dinosaurs.