Outline: a typical theropod
Tototlmimus
"bird mimic"
Type species Tototlmimus packardensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Ornithomimidae
- Found in
- Mexico
- Named by
- Serrano-Brañas et al. 2016
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Tototlmimus
What it was like
Tototlmimus was an ostrich-like dinosaur known from bones of the hands and feet.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mexico. Its bones come from the Packard Shale.
How it was found
Serrano-Brañas and colleagues named it in 2016. The type species is Tototlmimus packardensis. It was the first ostrich-like dinosaur named from Mexico, and its name comes from an old language of Mexico.
Close relatives
Other members of Ornithomimidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, E. Torres-Rodríguez, and P. C. Reyes-Luna, I. González-Ramírez, C. González-León. 2016. A new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Packard Shale formation (Cabullona Group) Sonora, México. Cretaceous Research 58(1):49-62