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Tarbosaurus
Tarbosaurus
- Pronunciation:
- TAR-bow-SORE-us
- Name meaning:
- 'alarming lizard'

- Type of dinosaur:
- large theropod
- Length:
- 10.0m
- Diet:
- carnivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 74-70 million years ago
- Found in:
- China, Mongolia
Tarbosaurus is very like Tyrannosaurus.

© Andrey Atuchin
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Tetanurae, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Tyrannosauroidea, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurinae
- Named by:
- Maleev (1955)
- Type species:
- bataar
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