Outline: a typical theropod
Garudimimus
"Garuda mimic"
- Lived
- 94 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Length
- about 4.7 m (15 ft)
- Group
- Theropods, Deinocheiridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Barsbold 1981
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical theropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Garudimimus
What it was like
Garudimimus was an ostrich-like dinosaur about 4.7 meters (15 feet) long, with a toothless beak. It had shorter, sturdier feet than many of its fast-running relatives, and it was a close relative of the giant Deinocheirus. It probably ate plants and perhaps small animals.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Baynshire Formation, where it lived alongside the raptor Achillobator, the long-clawed Segnosaurus and Erlikosaurus and the armored Talarurus.
How it was found
Barsbold named Garudimimus in 1981 from one skeleton with a skull. Its name comes from a bird-like creature of Asian legend.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Deinocheiridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Barsbold. 1981. Bezzubyye khishchnyye dinozavry Mongolii [Toothless carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Sovmestnaia Sovetsko-Mongol’skaia Paleontologicheskaia Ekspeditsiia Trudy 15:28-39