Urbacodon

Pronunciation:
urb-ah-ko-don
Name meaning:
'URBAC tooth'

© Andrey Atuchin

Type of dinosaur:
small theropod
Length:
1.0m
Diet:
carnivorous
When it lived:
Late Cretaceous, 95 million years ago
Found in:
Uzbekistan

Urbacodon is known only from a left dentary (the bone of the lower jaw that bears the teeth), which contained 32 unserrated teeth. Its name comes from 'URBAC', the acronym for international joint expeditions to the Kyzylkum Desert.

Taxonomic details

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Saurischia
Named by:
Averianov and Sues (2007)
Type species:
itemirensis