A Guide to the Dinosaurs of Colorado
On Dinosaur Classification
On Scientific Names
The Basics of Taxonomy
An Introduction to Cladistcs
Taxonomy of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Cladogram of the Dinosaurs of Colorado
About the Dinosaurs of Colorado
Geological
Time Chart
    

Genus Ornithomimus

Taxonomy: Recognized Species
Class Dinosauria
  Subclass Theropodia
    Order Ornithomimosauria
      Family Ornithomimosauridae
O. velox Marsh, 1890
  Colorado, Utah
O. edmontonensis Sternberg, 1933
  Alberta, Canada
Species in Colorado: Ornithomimus velox
Size: Where found:
11½ feet
3.5 meters		 Denver Formation of Colorado.
Period: Age:
Late Cretaceous Late Maastrichtian
  65 to 68 Ma.
(Late Campian - Early Maastrichtian for O. edmontonensis)
Material Found
O. velox
Postcranial material.
O. edmontonensis
Skull and postcranial skeleton, 2 fragmentary postcrania.

Information compiled by Donald L. Blanchard

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