Tarbosaurus bataar
Taxon
Tarbosaurus bataar (Maleev, 1955)
Reconstructed length
~9.9 m (32 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2022
Clade
- Theropoda
- Tetanurae
- Coelurosauria
- Tyrannosauroidea
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tarbosaurus was a large tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, and a close relative of its more famous cousin, Tyrannosaurus. Reaching 10 m (33 feet) in length, it was almost as large as T. rex, making Tarbosaurus the apex predator of the Asian floodplains where it lived.
