Tochisaurus

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Tochisaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Coelurosauria
(unranked) Deinonychosauria
Family: Troodontidae
Genus: Tochisaurus
Kurzanov and Osmólska, 1991
Species
  • T. nemegtensis Kurzanov and Osmólska, 1991 (type)

Tochisaurus (meaning "Tochi lizard") is a genus of small theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils, consisting solely of the metatarsus, were found in Mongolia. The type (and only known) species is T. nemegtensis, formalized by Kurzanov and Osmólska in 1991. Based on the partial fossils, Tochisaurus is thought to have been a troodontid.

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