Bagaraatan
| Bagaraatan Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Lower jaw bones | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Tyrannosauroidea |
| Clade: | †Pantyrannosauria |
| Genus: | †Bagaraatan Osmólska, 1996 |
| Type species | |
| †Bagaraatan ostromi Osmólska, 1996
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Bagaraatan (/'ba-ɣa-raa-tan/ meaning 'small' baɣa + 'carnivorous animal, beast of prey' araatan in Mongolian) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. It may have been a small predatory dinosaur measuring around 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13.1 ft) in length.