Itemirus
Itemirus was a small, fast, meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Uzbekistan. It was a type of raptor, related to famous dinosaurs like Velociraptor. Scientists know it from just one piece of its skull, found near a village called Itemir.13
Ankakhala liti?
Anali ndi liwiro lotani?
Mfundo zosangalatsa
Itemirus is known from just one small, damaged braincase (the part of the skull that holds the brain).1
The fossil was found in 1958 near the village of Itemir in Uzbekistan.1
Itemirus lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, about 91 million years ago.1
Scientists have disagreed about which group Itemirus belongs to. It has been placed in the tyrannosaur family, the velociraptor subfamily, and the dromaeosaur subfamily.1
The name Itemirus comes from the village Itemir, where the fossil was found.1
The species name medullaris refers to the medulla oblongata, a part of the brain that the fossil braincase protected.1

Mafunso ofunsidwa kwambiri okhudza Itemirus
?How big was Itemirus?
Nobody knows for sure because only a small piece of its skull has been found. It was probably a small dinosaur, like other raptors.1
?What did Itemirus eat?
It was a meat-eating dinosaur. As a raptor, it likely hunted small animals.1
?Is Itemirus a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is a type of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur.1
?When did Itemirus live?
It lived about 91 million years ago, during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.1
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Itemirus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Kurzanov 19763
- Gulu
- Maraputala
- Banja / kladi
- Dromaeosauridae3
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae3
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 94 mpaka 90 miliyoni (Turonian)3
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Bissekty3
- Mayiko
- Uzbekistan3
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 5 mu The Paleobiology Database3
- Kupezeka
- Itemirus was named by Soviet paleontologist Sergei Kurzanov in 1976. He described the single braincase fossil, which had been found in 1958 near the village of Itemir in Uzbekistan.13
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists still debate which group of dinosaurs Itemirus belongs to. It has been classified as a tyrannosaur, a velociraptor, and a dromaeosaur at different times.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Itemirus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Itemirus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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