Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Authoritative overview of the species: anatomy of the hindlimb holotype, body size (~78 kg), skeletal maturity at 6–7 years, age and evolutionary significance.
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Original description by Zanno et al. (2019) erecting Moros intrepidus and placing it phylogenetically within Theropoda: Coelurosauria: Tyrannosauroidea.
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Documents the holotype locality and the sole known occurrence of the species in the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Emery County, Utah, USA.
Åpne kilde ↗A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation: insights into the paleobiodiversity and paleobiogeography of early Late Cretaceous ecosystems in western North America
PeerJ
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Peer-reviewed analysis of the fauna and depositional palaeoenvironment of the Mussentuchit Member, the coastal-plain ecosystem in which Moros intrepidus lived.
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Describes Moros intrepidus as a small-bodied, cursorial predatory tyrannosauroid, including a referred theropod tooth, establishing its carnivorous diet.
Åpne kilde ↗A refined temporal framework for newly discovered fossil assemblages of the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Mussentuchit Member), Mussentuchit Wash, Central Utah
Cretaceous Research (Elsevier)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Extinct taxon; conservation status NE
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Authoritative overview of the species: anatomy of the hindlimb holotype, body size (~78 kg), skeletal maturity at 6–7 years, age and evolutionary significance.
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Authoritative overview of the species: anatomy of the hindlimb holotype, body size (~78 kg), skeletal maturity at 6–7 years, age and evolutionary significance.
Åpne kilde ↗Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record
Communications Biology (Springer Nature)
Sjekket: 6.9.2026
Authoritative overview of the species: anatomy of the hindlimb holotype, body size (~78 kg), skeletal maturity at 6–7 years, age and evolutionary significance.
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