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Itemirus medullaris

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Itemirus medullaris (Kurzanov 1976)
Name Means: "Itemir ? " Length: Unknown
Pronounced: EYE-te-MEER-us Weight: Unknown
When it lived: Late Cretaceous - about 90 million years ago
Where found: Uzbekistan.

Itemirus medullaris was a small, theropod dinosaur from the Central Kyzlkuum Sands (Late Cretaceous, late Turonian Age) of Dzhara-Kuduk, Itemir, Uzbekistan. It is known only from a braincase (the part of the skull that contains the brain) It shares with Stokesosaurus in the presence of very deep pockets on the lateral surface of the basipterygoid process. The type species is I. medullaris.

Text credit to: Dinosaur-World.com [link]

Drawn by Brian Roesch on 03-21-2006.
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EmperorDinobot's avatar
I'm surprised I had not seen this one before. Very nice. Itemirus was the name of a generic deinonychosaur back then, right? I wonder what prompted them to change it into something non-maniraptoran...
Then again, I'm no good on dinosaur braincases :lol: