Deinocheirus mirificus Kielan-Jaworowska 1969 (ornithomimosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Deinocheiridae

Alternative combination: Deinocheirus miriphicus

Full reference: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1969. Fossils from the Gobi desert. Science Journal 5(1):32-38

Belongs to Deinocheirus according to B. R. Peecook and C. A. Sidor 2015

See also Alifanov and Saveliev 2015, Averianov et al. 2017, Barsbold 1983, Barsbold 1997, Bell et al. 2012, Bronowicz 2011, Cau and Madzia 2018, Chinzorig et al. 2017, Claessens and Loewen 2016, Currie 1992, Currie 2000, Galton 1982, Gauthier 1986, Holtz 1998, Hunt and Quinn 2018, Kielan-Jaworowska 1969, Kielan-Jaworowska 1984, Kobayashi and Barsbold 2006, Lee et al. 2014, Li et al. 2007, Makovicky et al. 2004, McFeeters et al. 2016, Molnar 1980, Olshevsky 1981, Osmólska 1997, Osmólska 1997, Osmólska and Roniewicz 1970, Osmólska et al. 1972, Paul 1988, Rauhut 2003, Rozhdestvensky 1977 and Senter and Sullivan 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZPal MgD-I/6 (MPC-D 100/018), a set of limb elements. Its type locality is Altan Ula III, site 2 [PMPE], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mongolia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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