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Machairasaurus
Omnivore
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Machairasaurus (Bayan Mandahu), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Eopinacosaurus
Cretaceous
Protoceratops
Cretaceous
Pinacosaurus
Cretaceous
Bagaceratops
Cretaceous
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Oviraptoridae
- When it lived
- 72.2–83.6 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Campanian
- Named by
- Longrich et al., 2010
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata