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bird-hipped dinosaur
Minimocursor
Say it like this: “MIH-nee-mo-KUHR-suh”
Minimocursor phunoiensis
Minimocursor ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Thailand.
- When
- Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Tithonian · Berriasian) · roughly 149.2 to 137.1 million years ago
- Named in
- 2023 · Manitkoon, S.; Deesri, U.; Khalloufi, B.; Nonsrirach, T.; Suteethorn, V.; Chanthasit, P.; Boonla, W.; Buffetaut, E.
- Hip height
- 0.5 m · 2 ft
- Length
- 0.6–2 m · 2–7 ft
- Weight
- 4 kg · 9 lb
- Found in
- Thailand · Phu Kradung
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- bird-hipped dinosaur · Ornithischian
- Family branch
- Neornithischia
The story in short
The genus Minimocursor dates to 2023, the year S. Manitkoon and colleagues described it. The name means “the smallest.”
It lived in the Late Jurassic · Early Cretaceous (Tithonian · Berriasian), roughly 149.2 to 137.1 million years ago. Finds come from Thailand, including the Phu Kradung Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Minimocursor at a length near 0.6–2 m, hips about 0.5 m high, and a body mass around 4 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Neornithischia, among the bird-hipped dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Agilisaurus
Agilisaurus louderbacki
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago
Enigmacursor
Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian · Tithonian) · roughly 154.8 to 143.1 million years ago
Hexinlusaurus
Hexinlusaurus multidens
Middle Jurassic · Late Jurassic (Bajocian–Oxfordian) · roughly 170.9 to 154.8 million years ago