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Tarbosaurus
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Tarbosaurus was a carnivore (meat-eater) that lived in Asia
during the late Cretaceous period,
about 68 to 65 million years ago.
It was one of the
dinosaurs that died out in the Cretaceous-Tertiary
extinction
65 million years ago.
Tarbosaurus was about 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) long and weighed 4 to 5 tons.
Tarbosaurus is closely related to Tyrannosaurus Rex,
and there is some debate among scientists about exactly how close, and about
exactly how Tarbosaurus should be classified.
The creature was first described by Evegeny Maleev in
1955
using
fossils
recovered in a Soviet Mongolian expedition of
1948.
The name Tarbosaurus means "terror lizard".
Tarbosaurus was a carnivore (meat-eater) that lived from 68 to 65 million years ago
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Tarbosaurus Facts
Here is a summary of some of the key facts about Tarbosaurus:
- Tarbosaurus was a genus of dinosaur.
- "Tarbosaurus" means "terrifying lizard".
- Tarbosaurus was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Tarbosaurus was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
- Tarbosaurus was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Tarbosaurus was not itself an ancestor of birds).
- Tarbosaurus lived between about 68 million years ago and 65 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.
- Tarbosaurus was one of the dinosaurs which died out during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era.
- Tarbosaurus lived in Asia.
- Tarbosaurus was a carnivore (meat-eater).
- Tarbosaurus was about 30 feet (9 meters) to 40 feet (12 meters) long.
- Tarbosaurus weighed about 4 or 5 tons.
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By David E. & David B. WEISHAMPEL. FASTOVSKY
Cambridge University Press
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By David E. & David B. WEISHAMPEL. FASTOVSKY
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