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Kiyacursor fossil map

Where fossils of Kiyacursor have been found, shown on the Earth as it looked about 115 million years ago and on today’s map.

Dots are fossil collections recorded in the Paleobiology Database. The “then” view moves today’s fossil sites back to their positions 115 million years ago (the time slice nearest the median age of the fossils) using the Merdith et al. (2021) plate model; positions are approximate. Open on the timeline map →

Kiyacursor
Image: С. В. Иванцов, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
GroupTheropods
Lived121.4–113.2 million years ago (Aptian)
PeriodsCretaceous
FamilyNoasauridae
Named byAverianov et al. 2024
Fossil records2 occurrences at 1 locations (PBDB)
Found inRussia
Rock formationsIlek

About Kiyacursor

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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Kiyacursor (revision 1338936289), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; introduction excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Ages, family, authority and fossil records: Paleobiology Database, accessed 23 October 2026. Ages are those of the rock layers the fossils were found in. Wikidata: Q125911674.

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