Avimimus portentosus ayvih-MEYEMUHS
"bird mimic"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Avimimus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Avimimus ( ), meaning “bird mimic” (Latin avis = bird + mimus = mimic), is a genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur, named for its bird-like characteristics, that lived in the late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia, during the Maastrichtian.
What we know
- Named by Kurzanov, 1981.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.