Aepyornithomimus Aepyornithomimus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Aepyornithomimus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Ornithomimidae
Aepyornithomimus (meaning “Aepyornis mimic”) is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Djadochta Formation of Mongolia. It lived in the Campanian, around 75 million years ago, when the area is thought to have been a desert. The type and only species is A. tugrikinensis.
What we know
- Named by Chinzorig et al., 2017.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.