Bagaraatan

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Bagaraatan
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Genus: Bagaraatan
Species: B. ostromi
Binomial name
Bagaraatan ostromi
Osmolska, 1996

Bagaraatan (meaning "small hunter") was a theropod from the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Bagaraatan may have been around 3-4 meters in length.

The type species, B. ostromi, was described by Osmolska in 1996.

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