Pelecanimimus
"pelican mimic"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pelecanimimus 2.5 m (8.2 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (130 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pelecanimimus (meaning “pelican mimic”) is an extinct genus of basal (“primitive”) ornithomimosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. It is notable for possessing more teeth than any other member of the Ornithomimosauria (or any other theropod), most of which were toothless.
What we know
- Named by Perez-Moreno et al., 1994.
- Body length estimated at about 2.5 m.
- Fossils found in Spain.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pelecanimimus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.