Tochisaurus nemegtensis

Sergej M. Kurzanov and Halszka Osmólska · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TochisaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Troodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Troodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Troodontidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tochisaurus nemegtensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Tochisaurus nemegtensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tochisaurus nemegtensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tochisaurus nemegtensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Mongolochelys efremovi1 site
- Nemegtemys conflata1 site
- Shamosuchus gradilifrons1 site
- Tarbosaurus bataar1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tochisaurus nemegtensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Tochisaurus nemegtensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Sergej M. Kurzanov and Halszka Osmólska
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tochisaurus nemegtensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTochisaurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kurzanov and Osmólska 1991