Suskityrannus

Suskityrannus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Turonian) 93.9–89.8 Ma
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Reconstructed skeleton at the Dinokingdom exhibition, Chiba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Tyrannoraptora
Superfamily: †Tyrannosauroidea
Clade: †Pantyrannosauria
Genus: †Suskityrannus
Species:
†S. hazelae
Binomial name
†Suskityrannus hazelae
Nesbitt et al., 2019

Suskityrannus (meaning "coyote tyrant", suski meaning "coyote" in Zuni) is a genus of small tyrannosauroid theropod from the Late Cretaceous in southern Laramidia. It contains a single species, Suskityrannus hazelae, and the type specimen was found in the Turonian-age Moreno Hill Formation of the Zuni Basin in western New Mexico.[2]

  1. ^ Cilliers, Charl D.; Tucker, Ryan T.; Crowley, James L.; Zanno, Lindsay E. (2021). "Age constraint for the Moreno Hill Formation (Zuni Basin) by CA-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon geochronology". PeerJ. 9. e10948. doi:10.7717/peerj.10948. PMC 7953880. PMID 33854833.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Suskityrannus was invoked but never defined (see the help page).