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Bagaraatan ostromi

"small"

Generic theropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Bagaraatan 10 m (33 ft) long
as long as 6 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic theropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Bagaraatan
Length
10 m (33 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Mongolia
Food
Carnivore
Clade
Tyrannosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Tyrannosauroidea Late-Cretaceous tyrants: T. rex, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus.

Bagaraatan (/‘ba-ɣa-raa-tan/ meaning ‘small’ baɣa + ‘carnivorous animal, beast of prey’ araatan in Mongolian) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It may have been a small predatory dinosaur measuring around 3 to 4 in length.

What we know

  • Named by Osmólska, 1996.
  • Fossils found in Mongolia.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Bagaraatan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.