Genus
Valid Extinct

Garudimimus

Garudi mimic
Barsbold 1981

Garudimimus is a genus of ornithomimosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous. The genus is known from a single specimen found in 1981 by a Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expedition in the Bayanshiree Formation and formally described in the same year by Rinchen Barsbold; the only species is Garudimimus brevipes. Several interpretations about the anatomical traits of Garudimimus were made in posterior examinations of the specimen, but most of them were criticized during its comprehensive redescription in 2005. Extensive undescribed ornithomimosaur remains at the type locality of Garudimimus may represent additional specimens of the genus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore, omnivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Garudimimus
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Photo of the partial holotype skeleton of the ornithomimosaur Garudimimus brevipes, as mounted in the Mongolian Natural History Museum. Scan of physical photograph. © J. Spencer · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Theropoda Unranked clade
Ornithomimosauria Unranked clade
Deinocheiridae Family
Garudimimus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇲🇳 Mongolia
1
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Coniacian (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Garudimimus brevipes 94 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. Barsbold. 1981. Bezzubyye khishchnyye dinozavry Mongolii [Toothless carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Sovmestnaia Sovetsko-Mongol’skaia Paleontologicheskaia Ekspeditsiia Trudy 15:28-39
Bibliography (1)
R. Barsbold. 1981. Bezzubyye khishchnyye dinozavry Mongolii [Toothless carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Sovmestnaia Sovetsko-Mongol’skaia Paleontologicheskaia Ekspeditsiia Trudy 15:28-39