Outline: a typical theropod
Mexidracon
"Mexican dragon"
Type species Mexidracon longimanus
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Ornithomimidae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Serrano-Brañas et al. 2025
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Mexidracon
What it was like
Mexidracon was an ornithomimid, a toothless, ostrich-like theropod with long legs. Its arms were long for its group.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mexico. It comes from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, where it shared a coastal land with the crested duckbills Tlatolophus and Velafrons and the tyrannosaur Labocania.
How it was found
Serrano-Brañas and colleagues named Mexidracon in 2025. The type species is Mexidracon longimanus, meaning long hand.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ornithomimidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, B. Espinosa-Chávez, and C. de León-Dávila, S. A. Maccracken, D. Barrera-Guevara, E. Torres-Rodríguez, A. Prieto-Márquez. 2025. A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico. Cretaceous Research 169(78):106087