Timimus

Tim's mimic

• Tim · English (personal name) · Tim Rich and Tim Flannery
• mimus · Latin/Greek · mimic

Timimus is a "Tim mimic" name. The first part honours Tim Rich (son of the palaeontologists who found the fossils) and Tim Flannery, who helped with the work. The second part comes from the Greek/Latin word for "mimic", alluding to the animal's resemblance to the ornithomimids, or "bird mimic" dinosaurs.

Named by

Rich and Vickers-Rich

Year named

1994

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Aptian

Found in

Wonthaggi Formation, Victoria, Australia

A small theropod known from fragmentary remains. Its exact relationships are debated, and it was first compared to ornithomimosaurs. The type species is Timimus hermani. The etymology of the "Tim" element is given with medium confidence.