Ornithomimoides ("bird mimic-like") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage, sometime between 70 and 66 mya) Lameta Formation of India.[1] Two species have been identified, the type species O. mobilis and O. barasimlensis, were named by von Huene in 1932[2] and were described by Matley in 1933[3] though they are known only from isolated vertebrae. O. barasimlensis is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and O. mobilis from four smaller vertebrae, found at the same location.
| Ornithomimoides Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Illustration of a partial vertebra of O. mobilis, specimen K20/610 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Ornithomimoides Huene, 1932 vide Huene and Matley, 1933 |
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| †Ornithomimoides mobilis von Huene and Matley, 1933
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It is possible that, based on three reviews, published in 1999, 2004 and 2024 respectively, Ornithomimoides may have been an abelisaur, which may have measured between 6.2 metres (20 ft) and 9 metres (30 ft) in length.[4][5][6]
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References edit
- ^ "Ornithomimoides in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair". Archived from the original on 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
- ^ von Huene. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monog. Geol. Pal. 4 (1) pts. 1 and 2, viii + 361 pp.
- ^ Huene and Matley. (1933). The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the central provinces of India. Pal. Indica 21 1-74, 33 figs., 24 pls.
- ^ Novas and Bandyopaphyay. (1999). New approaches on the Cretaceous theropods from India. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, abstracts.
- ^ Novas, Agnolin and Bandyopadhyay. (2004). Cretaceous theropods from India: A review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat., n.s. 6(1): 67-103.
- ^ Mohabey, Dhananjay M.; Samant, Bandana; Vélez-Rosado, Kevin I.; Wilson Mantilla, Jeffrey A. (2024-02-07). "A review of small-bodied theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of India, with description of new cranial remains of a noasaurid (Theropoda: Abelisauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi:10.1080/02724634.2023.2288088. ISSN 0272-4634.
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