Named By: | Rinchen Barsbold in 1988 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma |
Location: | Mongolia, Bayankhongor Province - Nemegt Formation |
Size: | Estimated at 3 meters long |
Diet: | Uncertain but possible omnivore |
Fossil(s): | Articulated skeleton, but skull and mandible (lower jaw) are unknown |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Ornithomimidae | |
Anserimimus ( AN-sar-i-MY-mas; "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.