Byronosaurus
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- Parent taxon
- Troodontinae
- Image
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- Byronosaurus
- end time
- 75000000-0
- start time
- 80000000-0
- taxon name
- Byronosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
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- Description
- Classification
- Palaeobiology
- Diet
- Reproduction
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Byronosaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.
==Discovery and naming== In 1993, Michael Novacek, a member of an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Gobi Desert, discovered the skeleton of a small theropod at Ukhaa Tolgod. This was further excavated in 1994 and 1995. The find was illustrated in a publication in 1994. On 15 July 1996, at the Bolor's Hill site, about eight kilometers (five miles) away from the original location, a second specimen was discovered, a skull.
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