Bistahieversor

Bisti destroyer

• Bistahí · Navajo · Bisti, the badlands where the fossil was found (from a Navajo term often translated as 'among the adobe formations')
• eversor · Latin · destroyer, overthrower

The name combines Bisti, the badlands of northwestern New Mexico (Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness) where the fossil was found, with the Latin 'eversor', meaning 'destroyer'. It was chosen to mean 'destroyer from Bisti', referring to the animal's identity as a large predatory tyrannosauroid and to its place of discovery. The type species, B. sealeyi, honours Paul Sealey, who found the specimen.

Named by

Carr and Williamson

Year named

2010

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Campanian

Found in

Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

A basal tyrannosauroid (a large theropod dinosaur related to tyrannosaurs). The type species is Bistahieversor sealeyi.