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Gallimimus
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Gallimimus was a fast-running dinosaur that lived in Mongolia
in the late Cretaceous period,
about 75 to 70 million years ago.
Gallimimus was about 13 feet (4 meters) long,
and weighed around 60 pounds (27 kilograms).
Gallimimus had a long snout ending in a beak, and its hands seem better
suited to digging than to grasping. Some scientists believe that Gallimimus
may have dug up other dinosaurs' eggs buried in sand, and then cracked
them open with its beak.
Another possibility is that it may have been an omnivore,
eating small animals, insects,
and perhaps some plant material, as well as eggs.
Gallimimus had hollow bones similar to modern birds. It also has a number
of adaptations suggesting that it may have been a fast runner. These
include long limbs, a long tibia (the shin bone) and metatarsus (the long
bones of the foot), as well as short toes.
The first
fossils
of Gallimimus were discovered in the early 1970s, and the creature was
named in
1972
by
Rinchen Barsbold, Halszka Osmólska and Ewa Roniewicz.
Gallimimus was an omnivore (ate meat and plants) that lived from 75 to 70 million years ago
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Gallimimus Facts
Here is a summary of some of the key facts about Gallimimus:
- Gallimimus was a genus of dinosaur.
- "Gallimimus" means "fowl mimic".
- Gallimimus was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Gallimimus was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
- Gallimimus was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Gallimimus was not itself an ancestor of birds).
- Gallimimus lived between about 75 million years ago and 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.
- Gallimimus lived in Mongolia.
- Gallimimus was a omnivore (ate both meat and plants).
- Gallimimus was about 13 feet (4 meters) long.
- Gallimimus weighed about 60 pounds (27 kilograms).
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Crestaceous Period: Baryonyx, Chasmosaurus, Gallimimus, Maiasaura, Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Psittacosaurusm - Jurassic: Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Megalosaurus, Pterodactylus, Steogosaurus, Vulcanodon - Triassic: Coelophysis |
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More info: The Ornithomimosauria, ornithomimosaurs ("bird-mimic lizards") or ostrich dinosaurs were theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches. They were fast, omnivorous or herbivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of Laurasia (now Asia, Europe and North America). The group first appeared in the Early Cretaceous and persisted until the Late Cretaceous. Primitive members of the group include Pelecanimimus, Shenzhousaurus, Harpymimus and probably the huge Deinocheirus, the arms of which reached 2.4 m (8 feet) in length. More advanced species, members of the family Ornithomimidae, include Gallimimus, Archaeornithomimus, Anserimimus, Struthiomimus, and Ornithomimus. Some paleontologists, like Paul Sereno, consider the enigmatic alvarezsaurids to be close relatives of the ornithomimosaurs and place them together in the superfamily Ornithomimoidea (see classification below). |
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