Itemirus

Taxobox
name = "Itemirus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
superfamilia = Tyrannosauroidea
familia = Tyrannosauridae
genus = "Itemirus"
genus_authority = Kurzanov, 1976
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "I. medullaris"

"Itemirus" is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a possible Tyrannosaurid which lived in Asia. A fossil of its braincase was found at Dzharakuduk.

The type species, "I. medullaris", was described by Kurzanov in 1976. No other species have been permanently assigned to this genus. Since only the braincase was discovered, the only certain estimates concern its brain size, and evidence that it had good vision and balance, based on the large lobes of the brain.

References

* http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a66cfe.htm
* http://www.dinosaurier-web.de/galery/pages_i/itemirus.html