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Nomingia
Nomingia was an ominovorous dinosaur that lived in
Mongolia during the late
Cretaceous period,
about 70 to 65 million years ago. It was found in a region of
Mongolia known
as the Nomingiin Gobi, to which its name refers.
Nomingia was about 5 feet (1.6 meters) long.
Physically, Nomingia, like many of its relatives such
(Caudipteryx,
Oviraptor and
Protarchaeopteryx) seems to have been quite bird-like.
It was probably covered with feathers, and its tail had a
pygostyle-like mass (like that of Caudipteryx),
and so is thought to have had a fan of feathers at its tail.
Nomingia was an omnivore (ate meat and plants) that lived from 70 to 65 million years ago
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Nomingia Facts
Here is a summary of some of the key facts about Nomingia:
- Nomingia was a genus of dinosaur.
- "Nomingia" refers to a part of the Gobi desert near where this dinosaur was first found, the Nomingiin Gobi.
- Nomingia was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Nomingia was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
- Nomingia was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Nomingia was not itself an ancestor of birds).
- Nomingia lived between about 70 million years ago and 65 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.
- Nomingia was one of the dinosaurs which died out during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era.
- Nomingia lived in Mongolia.
- Nomingia was a omnivore (ate both meat and plants).
- Nomingia was about 5 feet (1.6 meters) long.
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