Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis Chinzorig et al. 2017 (ornithomimid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Ornithomimidae

Full reference: T. Chinzorig, Y. Kobayashi, K. Tsogtbaatar, P. J. Currie, M. Watabe and R. Barsbold. 2017. First ornithomimid (Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia. Scientific Reports 7(1):5835:1-14

Belongs to Aepyornithomimus according to T. Chinzorig et al. 2017

See also Chamberlain et al. 2023, Czepiński 2020 and Hunt and Quinn 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPC-D 100/130, a set of limb elements (left pes). Its type locality is Tugrikin Shire I [HMNS-GIN], which is in a Campanian dune sandstone in the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Tugrikin Shire I [HMNS-GIN]

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