Outline: a typical theropod
Kiyacursor
"Kiya runner"
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
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
115 million years ago
Field notes
About Kiyacursor
What it was like
Kiyacursor was a small, fast meat eater from the noasaurs, a family of light, slender hunters. It is known from part of a skeleton with long legs, and its species name means "long feet".
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Russia. Its bones come from the Ilek Formation, where it shared the land with Psittacosaurus and the long-necked Sibirotitan.
How it was found
Averianov and colleagues named Kiyacursor in 2024. It was the first noasaur found in Asia from the Early Cretaceous.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Noasauridae
Sources: 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