Sinornithomimus

Chinese bird mimic

• Sino · Latin/Greek · Chinese, China
• ornithos · Greek · bird
• mimos · Greek · mimic

The name means "Chinese bird mimic". It combines the prefix for China with the Greek words for "bird" and "mimic", the same roots as in Ornithomimus. It refers to the bird-like build of this ostrich-like dinosaur and to its discovery in China.

Named by

Kobayashi and Lü

Year named

2003

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Turonian

Found in

Ulansuhai Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

An ornithomimid theropod. The type species is S. dongi. The original specimens were described earlier as Ornithomimus sp. The age of the Ulansuhai Formation is uncertain, and some sources give a wider range, so the stage given here is approximate.