Bistahieversor

Bistahieversor
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 75.5–74.5 Ma
Skull and vertebra at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Eutyrannosauria
Genus: Bistahieversor
Carr & Williamson, 2010
Species:
B. sealeyi
Binomial name
Bistahieversor sealeyi
Carr & Williamson, 2010

Bistahieversor (meaning "Bistahi destroyer"), also known as the "Bisti Beast", is a genus of basal eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur. The genus contains only a single known species, B. sealeyi, described in 2010, from the Late Cretaceous[1] of New Mexico. The holotype and a juvenile were found in the Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, while other specimens came from the underlying Fossil Forest member of the Fruitland Formation. This dates Bistahieversor approximately 75.5 to 74.5 million years ago during the Campanian age, found in sediments spanning a million years.

  1. ^ Carr, Thomas D.; Williamson, Thomas E. (2010). "Bistahieversor sealeyi, gen. et sp. nov., a new tyrannosauroid from New Mexico and the origin of deep snouts in Tyrannosauroidea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1080/02724630903413032. S2CID 54029279.