#mirischia

Finally released from the Dinosaur Hell of my own making, I bring to you some extra size charts comparing related species that I’ve drawn so far!

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Mirischia asymmetrica /// Romualdo Formation (Ceará, Brazil)

This time we got a mother carrying her young! It's pretty cute, wouldn't you say?

Mirischia is a small compsognathid, and for now it's be the only member known from the Americas.

Mirischia asymmetrica, a theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (~112-99 mya). Although known only from its hips and a few other partial bones, these pieces were so well-preserved that it was given a genus name that translates to “wonderful pelvis”.

In life it would have been about 2m long (6′6″), but since the known fossil represents a subadult its full-grown size may have been a little bit larger. It was probably a member of the compsognathids, closely related to Compsognathus and Aristosuchus -- which would make it the only representative of that family currently known from the Americas.

■Brazilian extinct fauna!■

Animals included:

Source: http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1615189

Name: Mirischia asymmetrica 

Name Meaning: Asymmetrical Wonderful Hip Joint

First Described: 2004

Described By: Naish et al. 

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Compsognathidae

Mirischia was another small compsognathid. from the Albian age of the Early Cretaceous period, about 108 million years ago. It was found in the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation in Brazil (another cool animal for our Brazilian friends!) It is characterized by the fact that its left ischium (portion of the hip bone) is different from the right one. It was about two meters long, and a small bipedal predator. It had an air sac between its pubic and ischial bones, much like birds. It had very thin bones as well, much like birds. It most likely had feathers. 

Source: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirischia

Shout out goes to blues-jay!