Dinosaurs · Small theropod

Urbacodon

Say it urb-ah-ko-don. The name means ‘URBAC tooth’.

Urbacodon beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of small theropods

Length: 1 m
Diet: Meat-eater
When: Late Cretaceousabout 95 million years ago
Fossils found in: Uzbekistan
Named by: Averianov and Sues (2007)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia

Where Urbacodon sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Small theropods. Small two-legged dinosaurs, many feathered, the group that includes birds. See all 60

Lived at the same time

Other small theropods

Archaeornithomimus Late Cretaceous
Unenlagia Late Cretaceous
Buitreraptor Late Cretaceous
Erlikosaurus Late Cretaceous
Alvarezsaurus Late Cretaceous
Oviraptor Late Cretaceous
Saurornithoides Late Cretaceous
Bambiraptor Late Cretaceous

Source: Urbacodon in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.