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Velociraptor
Velociraptor mongoliensis
CretaceousCarnivoreTheropodSmall
- Length 2.07 m
- Mass 19.7 kg
Velociraptor is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago (Mya). Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis, named and described in 1924. Fossils of this species have been discovered in the Djadochta Formation, Mongolia. A second species, V. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China. A possible record is known from the Nemegt Formation.
Attributes
- Length
- 2.07 m
- Mass
- 19.7 kg
- Time range
- 89.8 - 66 Ma
- Size class
- Small
- Region
- Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan
Sources
Facts are drawn from the Paleobiology Database and Wikipedia. Images are reconstructions, not photographs.
