Suskityrannus
genus of tyrannosauroids
Suskityrannus is an early Tyrannosaurid, informally known as Zunityrannus until 2019. It lived in New Mexico 92 million years ago. The type specimen was found in the Turonian-age (Upper Cretaceous) Moreno Hill Formation of the Zuni Basin in western New Mexico.[4] [5]
Suskityrannus | |
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Reconstructed skeleton at the Dinokingdom exhibition, Tokyo | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Clade: | Tyrannoraptora |
Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
Clade: | †Pantyrannosauria |
Genus: | †Suskityrannus |
Species: | †S. hazelae
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Binomial name | |
Suskityrannus hazelae Nesbitt et al., 2019
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References change
- ↑ "†Suskityrannus Nesbitt et al. 2019 (coelurosaur)". PBDB.
- ↑ "Mirror Mesa (MSM) (Cretaceous of the United States)". PBDB.
- ↑ See Gradstein et al. (2004) for a detailed description of the ICS' timescale
- ↑ "Fossils of 3-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex relatives are evolutionary stepping stone". CNN Wire. 6 May 2019.
- ↑ "Planet Dinosaur". BBC.