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SINORNITHOMIMUS
(sy-nor-nif-h-mime-us)
meaning: "Chinese bird mimic"
Sinornithomimus
Named By: Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Lu Junchang in 2003
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 92 Ma
Location: Mongolia - Ulansuhai Formation
Size: 2 meters long
Diet: Uncertain, but thought to be more herbivorous rather than omnivorous like similar dinosaurs
Fossil(s): Many individuals including juveniles
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Ornithomimidae |
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Sinornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur found in 1997, in the early Late Cretaceous strata of the Ulansuhai Formation located at Alshanzuo Banner, Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, Northern China.

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