Tsaagan
Field photograph to come
Tsaagan
DV-0610
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Norell et al. 2006
Field notes
About Tsaagan
Tsaagan was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tsaagan, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Djadokhta Formation. It was named by Norell et al. in 2006.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. A. Norell, J. M. Clark, and A. H. Turner, P. J. Makovicky, R. Barsbold, T. Rowe. 2006. A new dromaeosaurid theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod (Ömnögov, Mongolia). American Museum Novitates 3545:1-25