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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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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Struthiomimus, Ornithomimosauria, Pelecanimimus, Deinocheirus, Anserimimus, Harpymimus, Gallimimus, Sinornithomimus, Dromiceiomimus, Ornithomimus, Kinnareemimus, Shenzhousaurus, Garudimimus, Archaeornithomimus, Beishanlong, Sanchusaurus, Orcomimus. Excerpt: Anserimimus Fossil range: Late Cretaceous Anserimimus (pronounced / æns r ma m s/ AN-s r-i-MYE-m s "goose mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur , from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia . It was a lanky, fast-running animal, possibly an omnivore . From what fossils are known, it probably closely resembled other ornithomimids, except for its more powerful forelimbs. Mongolian paleontologist Rinchen Barsbold named Anserimimus in 1988, combining the Latin anser meaning 'goose' with the Greek mimos meaning 'mimic'. Anser is the generic name of several species of geese . Although Anserimimus does not specifically resemble a goose, ornithomimosaurs have traditionally been named after different types of birds, such as Struthiomimus ('ostrich mimic'), Gallimimus ('rooster mimic'), and Pelecanimimus ('pelican mimic'). The one known species of Anserimimus is called A. planinychus , from the Latin planus meaning 'flat', and the Ancient Greek onychos meaning 'claw', in reference to the peculiar flattened claws which characterize the genus. Anserimimus is a member of the family Ornithomimidae, a group of derived ornithomimosaurians . Its closest relative may be Gallimimus (Kobayashi |
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gallimimus is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian stage) Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With individuals as long as 8 metres (26 ft), it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs. Gallimimus is known from multiple individuals, ranging from juvenile (about 0.5 metres tall at the hip) to adult (about 2 metres tall at the hip). |
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Kapitel: Ornithomimidae, Ornithomimus, Deinocheirus, Pelecanimimus, Struthiomimus, Gallimimus, Archaeornithomimus, Sinornithomimus, Harpymimus, Garudimimus, Shenzhousaurus, Timimus, Anserimimus, Coelosaurus. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ornithomimus (pronounced meaning 'bird mimic') is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Ornithomimus velox was named on the basis of a foot and partial hand from the Maastrichtian Denver Formation, but better material has since been found in Canada, including the Edmontonian-age Ornithomimus edmontonicus and an excellent articulated specimen (species unknown) from Dinosaur Provincial Park. Other specimens assigned to Ornithomimus have been discovered on the Eastern Coast of the USA. Ornithomimus edmontonicus, Royal Ontario Museum.Like other ornithomimids, Ornithomimus is characterized by a three-toed foot, long slender arms and a long neck with a birdlike skull. It differs from other ornithomimids, such as Struthiomimus, in having very slender, straight hand and foot claws and in having metacarpals and fingers of similar lengths. Its hands are remarkably sloth-like in appearance, which led Henry Fairfield Osborn to suggest that they were used to hook branches during feeding. Ornithomimus was 12 ft (3.5 meters) long, 7 feet (2.10 meters) high and weighed around 100-150 kg. It was bipedal and superficially resembled an ostrich, except for its long tail. It would have been a swift runner. Ornithomimus played a prominent role in the television series Prehistoric Park, where they were featured, to a greater or lesser extent, in every episode. They were portrayed as flock animals whose chicks have fluffy feathers and imprint on the first thing they see. They were also shown to have feeding habits more like that of a duck than an ostrich, a behavior based on an hypothesis (since refuted) which proposed that ornithomimids were filter feeders. Orn...http://booksllc.net/?l=de |
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