Zanabazar
Field photograph to come
Zanabazar
DV-0713
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- about 2.3 m (8 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Norell et al. 2009
Field notes
About Zanabazar
Zanabazar was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Troodontidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Zanabazar, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Norell et al. in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
To scale
How big was Zanabazar?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: M. A. Norell, P. J. Makovicky, and G. S. Bever, A. M. Balanoff, J. M. Clark, R. Barsbold, T. Rowe. 2009. A review of the Mongolian Cretaceous dinosaur Saurornithoides (Troodontidae: Theropoda). American Museum Novitates 3654:1-63