Pelecanimimus polyodon Pérez-Moreno et al. 1994 (ornithomimosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Alternative combination: Pelecanimimus hoyasi

Full reference: B. P. Pérez-Moreno, J. L. Sanz, A. D. Buscalioni, J. J. Moratalla, F. Ortega and D. Rasskin-Gutman. 1994. A unique multitoothed ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 370:363-367

Belongs to Pelecanimimus according to D. Néraudeau et al. 2012

See also Alifanov and Saveliev 2015, Buffetaut et al. 2009, Christiansen and Tschopp 2010, Claessens and Loewen 2016, Gianechini et al. 2011, Gómez-Fernández et al. 2007, Holtz 1998, Hurum 2001, Ji et al. 2003, Kobayashi and Barsbold 2005, Kobayashi and Barsbold 2006, Llandres Serrano et al. 2013, Lü et al. 2010, Makovicky et al. 2004, McFeeters et al. 2016, Moratalla et al. 2017, Norell and Makovicky 1997, Osmólska 1997, Pérez-Moreno et al. 1994, Pérez-Moreno and Sanz 1995, Pérez-Moreno and Sanz 1997, Poropat and Kear 2013, Rauhut 2003, Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo 2003, Sanz 2000, Sanz et al. 2000, Senter et al. 2004, Sereno 2017, Turner et al. 2007 and Xu et al. 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LH 7777, a partial skeleton (articulated anterior half of a skeleton). Its type locality is Las Hoyas (MCCM collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone/packstone in the La Huérguina Formation of Spain.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Las Hoyas (MCCM collection)

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