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