Meet Suskityrannus!

[suspsy]

A Middle Cretaceous intermediate between tyrannosauroids and tyrannosaurids!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0888-0

[UtahraptorFan]

I googled it, wondering if it was the Moreno Hill tyrannosauroid featured in Planet Dinosaur and referred to there by the nomen nudum, "Zunityrannus." I guess not as it wasn't much bigger, if at all, than Moros. I think it's a pretty cool name, meaning "coyote tyrant."

[suspsy]

For those without access to Nature, here are the basic facts:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/tiny-tyrannosaur-trod-lightly-92-million-years-ago

[RaptorRex]

I had the pleasure of attending the official announcment of Suskityrannus at the Arizona Museum of Natural History. Below is the fantastic reconstruction done by the AZMNH team as well as the cast skeleton, which if you've been to the AZMNH was originally our 'Zuni Coelurosaur.'

[Jose S.M.]

Interesting discovery. And that reconstruction looks great.

[MoarCrossovers]

What a cutie!

[Ravonium]

As much as I don't care for tyrannosaurids, this is quite interesting news, esecially when compared to the other news of today; yet another royal baby...sigh

Also, wow, that AZMNH reconstruction is good 

[RaptorRex]

I googled it, wondering if it was the Moreno Hill tyrannosauroid featured in Planet Dinosaur and referred to there by the nomen nudum, "Zunityrannus." I guess not as it wasn't much bigger, if at all, than Moros. I think it's a pretty cool name, meaning "coyote tyrant."

That, as well as the 'dromaeosaur' featured in When Dinosaurs Roamed America was based on fossil material from Suskityrannus.

[UtahraptorFan]

I googled it, wondering if it was the Moreno Hill tyrannosauroid featured in Planet Dinosaur and referred to there by the nomen nudum, "Zunityrannus." I guess not as it wasn't much bigger, if at all, than Moros. I think it's a pretty cool name, meaning "coyote tyrant."

That, as well as the 'dromaeosaur' featured in When Dinosaurs Roamed America was based on fossil material from Suskityrannus.

Interesting. Based on your pictures, I guess, not having the rear of the skull, they went with a similar field of view to dromaeosaurids.

[Logo7]

I googled it, wondering if it was the Moreno Hill tyrannosauroid featured in Planet Dinosaur and referred to there by the nomen nudum, "Zunityrannus." I guess not as it wasn't much bigger, if at all, than Moros. I think it's a pretty cool name, meaning "coyote tyrant."

That, as well as the 'dromaeosaur' featured in When Dinosaurs Roamed America was based on fossil material from Suskityrannus.

Interesting. Based on your pictures, I guess, not having the rear of the skull, they went with a similar field of view to dromaeosaurids.

The snout was originally believed to belong to a dromeosaur, hence the dromeosaurs in When Dinosaurs Roamed America. The coelurosaurs that appear in the same documentary are also based off of the material for Suskityrannus and are actually the animal that this new genus is based on. The "Zunityrannus" from Planet Dinosaur is apparently a combination of this animal and an indeterminate theropod leg bone found in the formation, although I can't remember what source claimed that last part, so take it with a grain of salt.

[VD231991]

There's an older thread regarding Suskityrannus:
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=570.0

[suspsy]

There's an older thread regarding Suskityrannus:
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=570.0

Yes, and it had been dead since 2012.