Genus
Valid Extinct

Aepyornithomimus

Chinzorig et al. 2017

Aepyornithomimus 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.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore, omnivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Aepyornithomimus
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Metatarsals of Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis. (a), in anterior, (b), in posterior, (c), in medial, and (d), in lateral views. Abbreviations: (Mt II, Mt III, and Mt IV), the second, the third, and the fourth metatarsals. © Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Philip J. Currie, Mahito Watabe & Rinchen Barsbold · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Ornithomimosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithomimidae Family
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Aepyornithomimus Genus
Measurements
Length
2,4 m ⓘ
Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis
Mass
30 kg ⓘ
Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇳 Mongolia
1
Geological formations
Djadokhta
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
T. Chinzorig, Y. Kobayashi, and K. Tsogtbaatar, P. J. Currie, M. Watabe, R. Barsbold. 2017. First ornithomimid (Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia. Scientific Reports 7(1):5835:1-14 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
T. Chinzorig, Y. Kobayashi, and K. Tsogtbaatar, P. J. Currie, M. Watabe, R. Barsbold. 2017. First ornithomimid (Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia. Scientific Reports 7(1):5835:1-14 DOI ↗