Faces of Ornithomimidae.
Top left: Gallimimus
Top right: Struthiomimus
Bottom left: Dromiceiomimus
Bottom right: Ornithimimus

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#Ornithomimus: Beast of the Week https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2024/02/ornithomimus-beast-of-week.html #paleoart by Christopher DiPiazza

"It lived during the late #Cretaceous period, between 76.5 and 66 million years ago, and therefore was one of the #dinosaurs wiped out by the meteorite that ended the #Mesozoic. From beak to tail it would have measured about 3.6 meters long and was either an herbivore, or possibly an omnivore when alive."

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Ornithomimus.

In 1890, Ornithomimus velox was given a type species by O. C. Marsh. It was based off a partial hindlimb, and forelimb that had been found in 1889 by George Lyman Cannon.

He also named two other species O. tenuis, and O. grandis. Both are fragmentary, and now believed to be tyrannosauroid material.

In 1892, O. minutus was named by him as well. It's now thought to be alveresaurid material.
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