Outline: a typical theropod
Tamarro
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Sellés et al. 2021
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Tamarro
What it was like
Tamarro was a small troodontid, a feathered, big-eyed theropod. It is known from a single foot bone. The bone shows the animal grew very fast.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Spain. Europe was then a chain of islands. Its bone comes from the Talarn Formation, where the duckbill Pararhabdodon also lived.
How it was found
Sellés and colleagues named it in 2021. Its name comes from a small creature of local legend.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and S. L. Brusatte, P. J. Currie, A. Galobart. 2021. A fast-growing basal troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of Europe. Scientific Reports 11:4855:1-12