Bagaraatan
Field photograph to come
Bagaraatan
DV-0388 · type species Bagaraatan ostromi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Tyrannosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Osmólska 1996
Field notes
About Bagaraatan
Bagaraatan was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Tyrannosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Bagaraatan, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Osmólska in 1996.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H. Osmólska. 1996. An unusual theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 41(1):1-38