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Bagaraatan ostromi - Cretaceous Dinosaurs

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(bog-uh-rah-tahn)
"smaller hunter"

Describer Osmolska, 1996
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Type of Species
Order Saurischia
SubOrder Theropoda
InfraOrder --
Micro-Order --
Family --
Size 10 feet (3 meters) long
Period Late Cretaceous, 75 million years ago
Fossilsite Mongolia
Diet Carnivore

Bagaraatan ostromi is a carnivore dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 75 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. This dinosaur was one of the smallest carnivores found in the Gobi Desert. Bagaraatan o. had a rigid tail with large spines on each tail vertebra.

Bagaraatan ostromi