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Rinchenia
© Andrey Atuchin
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Rinchenia is known from a skull and fragmentary postcrania, so reconstructions are quite speculative, based on similar dinosaurs.
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- Pronounced
- rin-chen-ee-ah
- Meaning of name
- Rinchen
- Length
- estimated 2.5m
- Diet
- omnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(72 - 68 million years ago)
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Avetherapoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Oviraptorosauria, Caenagnathoidea, Oviraptoridae, Oviraptorinae, Rinchenia
- Named by
- Barsbold (1986)
- Type species
- mongoliensis