Minimocursor phunoiensis, basal neornithischian from Late Jurassic Thailand

[Faelrin]

New basal neornithischian, from the Late Jurassic Phu Kradung Formation, in Thailand.

Decent enough remains, not complete, but enough for a pretty good idea of what it might have looked like. Just missing most of the skull, neck, arms, and tail. Paper does not appear to be paywalled:

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/7/851

Skeletal and artwork from the article:

Figure 4. Reconstruction of Minimocursor phunoiensis gen. et sp. nov. (PRC 150) in left lateral view (except reversed images of the right jugal). Recovered elements of the holotype shown in white (A); holotype with referred materials, which are not to scale, shown in light purple (B); and life restoration (C). Drawings by Wongwech Chowchuvech (A,B) and Sita Manitkoon (B).

 (Maybe they mean C?)



Edit: Gabriel Ugueto did a beautiful reconstruction of it, that looks similar to Kulindadromeus as far as integument goes, which is how I caught wind of this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CusEWHZL470/?img_index=1

[Halichoeres]

I did a double-take when I saw the scale bar--5 cm??? A little teacup dino.

[Faelrin]

It seems it was not fully grown, but still small. Estimate length of about 2 meters when fully grown, based on other material. That said I want a life size figure of this young one. It seems feasible anyways from how small it was.

[VD231991]

Minimocursor is quite significant as the first Jurassic ornithischian to be found in Southeast Asia because other Asian ornithischian taxa from the Middle and Late Jurassic have been found in China and Kyrgyzstan. It also further illuminates the age of the entire Phu Kradung Formation in that the lower part of the formation in which it was found is Late Jurassic, whereas the upper part of the Phu Kradung Formation is Early Cretaceous as indicated by derived tetrapod clades such as trionychid turtles. Someday, new iguanodontian taxa could be reported from the Middle and Late Jurassic of India and Thailand because knowledge of non-marginocephalian neornithischian evolution in the Middle to Late Jurassic remains a work in progress. 

[Prehistory Resurrection]

[Halichoeres]

Hirokazu Tokugawa sculpted a really nice model based on the illustration in the paper:

http://a-fragi.blogspot.com/2023/07/minimocursor-phunoiensis.html