Avimimus portentosus ayvih-MEYEMUHS
"bird mimic"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Avimimus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Avimimus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.