''Ornithomimoides'' ("bird mimic-like") is a dubious

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theropod Theropoda (; from ancient Greek , (''therion'') "wild beast"; , (''pous, podos'') "foot"">wiktionary:ποδός"> (''pous, podos'') "foot" is one of the three major groups (clades) of dinosaurs, alongside Ornithischia and Sauropodom ...

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...

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Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the more recent of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''cre ...

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Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian ( ) is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (geology), age (uppermost stage (stratigraphy), stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or Upper Cretaceous series (s ...

stage, sometime between 70 and 66 mya) Lameta Formation of

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. Two species have been identified, the type species ''O. mobilis'' and ''O. barasimlensis'', were named by von Huene in 1932 and were described by Matley in 1933 though they are known only from isolated

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e. ''O. barasimlensis'' is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and ''O. mobilis'' from four smaller vertebrae, found at the same location. It is possible that, based on three reviews, published in 1999, 2004 and 2024 respectively, ''Ornithomimoides'' may have been an abelisaur, which may have measured between and in length.Novas, Agnolin and Bandyopadhyay. (2004). Cretaceous theropods from India: A review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). ''Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat.'', n.s. 6(1): 67-103.

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{{Theropod-stub Abelisauridae Dinosaur genera Maastrichtian dinosaurs Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene Fossil taxa described in 1933 Dinosaurs of India

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