Tochisaurus

Taxobox
name = "Tochisaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Theropoda
infraordo = Coelurosauria
unranked_familia = Deinonychosauria
familia = Troodontidae
genus = "Tochisaurus"
genus_authority=Kurzanov and Osmólska, 1991
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"T. nemegtensis" Kurzanov and Osmólska, 1991 (type)

"Tochisaurus" (meaning "Tochi lizard") is a genus of small theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils, consisting solely of the metatarsus, were found in Mongolia. The type (and only known) species is "T. nemegtensis", formalized by Kurzanov and Osmólska in 1991. Based on the partial fossils, "Tochisaurus" is thought to have been a troodontid.

References

* [http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/troodontidae.htm "Tochisaurus" at "Thescelosaurus"!] (scroll down to Troodontidae "i.s.")