Kiyacursor
Sign in to saveKiyacursor (meaning "Kiya River runner") is an extinct genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Ilek Formation of Russia. The genus contains a single species, K. longipes, known from a partial skeleton. Kiyacursor represents the first Early Cretaceous ceratosaur discovered in Asia, as well as the second non-avian theropod named from Russia, after Kileskus in 2010.
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Kiyacursor (meaning "Kiya River runner") is an extinct genus of noasaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Ilek Formation of Russia. The genus contains a single species, K. longipes, known from a partial skeleton. Kiyacursor represents the first Early Cretaceous ceratosaur discovered in Asia, as well as the second non-avian theropod named from Russia, after Kileskus in 2010.
== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Paleoart|Life restoration The Kiyacursor holotype specimen, KOKM 5542, was discovered in the summer of 2023 in sediments of the Ilek Formation (Shestakovo 1 locality) by the Kiya River in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The specimen consists of an incomplete skeleton, including cervical and caudal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, a left scapulocoracoid, humeri, and much of both articulated hind limbs.