Suskityrannus
genus of tyrannosauroids
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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 
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| 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. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
- ↑ "Planet Dinosaur". BBC.
