Outline: a typical theropod
Anserimimus
AN-ser-ih-MY-mus
"goose mimic"
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- about 3.5 m (11 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Ornithomimidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Barsbold 1988
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical theropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Anserimimus
What it was like
Anserimimus was an ornithomimid, a lightly built, toothless theropod shaped a bit like an ostrich. It was about 3.5 meters (11 feet) long. Its arms were strong for its group, with long, flat claws, which may have helped it dig or pull down branches.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. The Nemegt Formation it comes from was a land of rivers and forests shared with Tarbosaurus, Therizinosaurus, Deinocheirus and the larger ornithomimid Gallimimus.
How it was found
Barsbold named Anserimimus in 1988, from one partial skeleton without a skull.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ornithomimidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Barsbold. 1988. A new Late Cretaceous ornithomimid from the Mongolian People's Republic. Paleontological Journal 1988(1):122-125