Archaeocursor Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Holotype femur | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Genus: | †Archaeocursor Yao et al., 2025 |
Species: | †A. asiaticus
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Binomial name | |
†Archaeocursor asiaticus Yao et al., 2025
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Archaeocursor (meaning "old runner") is an extinct genus of basal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic Ziliujing Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, A. asiaticus, known from a single femur. Archaeocursor represents the oldest and most basal ornithischian described from Asia.