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| Tarbosaurus | |
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| Skeleton on exhibit in Dinosaurium, Prague | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Family: | Tyrannosauridae |
| Subfamily: | Tyrannosaurinae |
| Tribe: | Tarbosaurini Olshevsky & Ford, 1995 |
| Genus: | Tarbosaurus Maleev, 1955 |
| Species: | T. bataar |
| Binomial name | |
| Tarbosaurus bataar (Maleev, 1955) [originally Tyrannosaurus] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tarbosaurus was a large carnivorous theropod dinosaur from Asia, especially Mongolia and China. It was a tyrannosaurid dinosaur which flourished between 70 and 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Tarbosaurus lived in a humid floodplain criss-crossed by river channels. In this environment, it was a predator at the top of the food chain, probably preying on other large dinosaurs like the hadrosaur Saurolophus or the sauropod Nemegtosaurus.
Tarbosaurus is known from dozens of specimens, with several complete skulls and skeletons. These remains have allowed scientific studies on its phylogeny, skull mechanics, and brain structure.
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