Pronunciation:
Meaning: Emu mimic
Author/s: Russell (1972)
Synonyms: Struthiomimus brevitertius
First Discovery: Alberta, Canada
Discovery Chart Position: #226
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DROMICEIOMIMUS
an ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 72-68 myaStats:
Est. max. length: 3.5 meters
Est. max. hip height: 1.5 meters
Est. max. weight: 100 Kg
Diet: HerbivoreDromiceiomimus
brevitertius
References
• Parks W (1926) "Struthiomimus brevetertius - A new species of dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta". Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3. 20(4): 65-70.
• Russell D (1972) "Ostrich dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 9: 375-402.
• Dodson P, Britt B, Carpenter K, Forster CA, Gillette DD, Norell MA, Olshevsky G, Parrish MJ and Weishampel DB (1994) "Dromiceiomimus" in "The Age of Dinosaurs".
• Makovicky P, Kobayashi and Currie PJ 2004) "Ornithomimosauria". Page 137-150 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmolska (eds) "The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Macdonald I and Currie PJ (2019) "Description of a partial Dromiceiomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) skeleton with comments on the validity of the genus". Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 56(2): 129–57.
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