Mexidracon longimanus Serrano-Brañas et al. 2025 (ornithomimid)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Ornithomimidae

Full reference: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, B. Espinosa-Chávez, C. León-Dávila, S. A. Maccracken, D. Barrera-Guevara, E. Torres-Rodríguez, and 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

Belongs to Mexidracon according to C. I. Serrano-Brañas et al. 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BENC 32/2-0001, a set of postcrania (a partially articulated skeleton represented by several dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, various haemal arches, left humerus, left metacarpals I-III, partia). Its type locality is Loma Prieta BENC 32/2, which is in a Campanian coastal siltstone/sandstone in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Loma Prieta BENC 32/2

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