Outline: a typical theropod
Harenadraco
"sand dragon"
Type species Harenadraco prima
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Lee et al. 2024
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Harenadraco
What it was like
Harenadraco was a small troodontid, a feathered theropod with long legs. It is known from part of the hind limbs and hips.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. It comes from the Baruungoyot Formation, a dry land of dunes shared with the armored Saichania and Tarchia and the dromaeosaur Shri.
How it was found
Lee and colleagues named Harenadraco in 2024. The type species is Harenadraco prima.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Lee, Y.-N. Lee, and J.-Y. Park, S.-H. Kim, Z. Badamkhatan, D. Idersaikhan, K. Tsogtbaatar. 2024. The first troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 43(6):e2364746:1-9