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Kileskus
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thumb|right|250px|Paleoart|Life restoration thumb|249x249px|Estimated size of Kileskus compared to a human thumb|Skull diagram of Kileskus aristotocus. Known material in white Kileskus (meaning "lizard" in the Khakas language) is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic (Bathonian stage) Itat Formation of Sharypovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia). Fossils recovered include the holotype maxilla, a premaxilla, a surangular, and a few bones from the hand and foot. Additional remains referred to the species include cervical and caudal vertebrae,

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thumb|right|250px|Paleoart|Life restoration thumb|249x249px|Estimated size of Kileskus compared to a human thumb|Skull diagram of Kileskus aristotocus. Known material in white Kileskus (meaning "lizard" in the Khakas language) is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic (Bathonian stage) Itat Formation of Sharypovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia). Fossils recovered include the holotype maxilla, a premaxilla, a surangular, and a few bones from the hand and foot. Additional remains referred to the species include cervical and caudal vertebrae, as well as a fibula. The skull bones are similar to those of Proceratosaurus. The type species is K. aristotocus, named in 2010 by Averianov and colleagues.

== Classification == Kileskus has been included in two phylogenetic analyses and found to be a basal proceratosaurid both times.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kileskus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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