Timimus hermani
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Timimus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (106 Mya)
- Place
- Australia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Timimus is a genus of small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. It was originally identified as an ornithomimosaur, but now it is thought to be a different kind of theropod, possibly a tyrannosauroid.
What we know
- Named by Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1993.
- Fossils found in Australia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Timimus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.