Fighting Dinosaurs
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The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi and Velociraptor mongoliensis locked in combat b
Fossil cast of the Fighting Dinosaurs at the Nagoya City Science Museum, Japan, 2014
Fossil of the Fighting Dinosaurs as found in situ in 1971
Skull of MPC-D 100/25 (Velociraptor mongoliensis)
Life restoration depicting the fight
Djadochta Formation
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The Djadochta Formation is a highly fossiliferous geological formation in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, during the Campanian to the Maastrichtian. The type localit
Fighting Dinosaurs
…The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi (a ceratopsian dinosaur) and Velociraptor mongoliensis (a dromaeosaurid dinosaur) locked in…
Bayn Dzak (Flaming Cliffs), the type locality of the Djadochta Formation
Exposures at the Flaming Cliffs
The Djadochta Formation has been compared to semi-arid ecosystems of North Africa and the Levant, such as this arid scrub in Morocco, which also supports conifer growth as seen here.
Articulated Protoceratops from Tugriken Shireh. This dinosaur is one of the most common occurrences in the Djadochta Formation