Definition of ornithomimosaur in English:
ornithomimosaur
noun ˌɔːnɪθə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪməsɔːˌôrnəTHōˈmīməsôr
technical term for ostrich dinosaur
Example sentencesExamples
- The only remaining controversy is whether therezinosauroids are closer to ornithomimosaurs or to oviraptorosaurs.
- Holtz ultimately concludes that ornithomimosaurs and tyrannosaurs probably form a monophyletic group, although his calculations do not yield a clean separation.
- Ornithomimosaurs were a group of toothless meat-eating theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Cretaceous period.
- Previous work with stable nitrogen isotope analysis did not find a significant difference in values between North American ornithomimosaurs and clearly carnivorous theropods such as tyrannosaurids and dromaeosaurids.
- Dodson suggested, because of their rarity, that the small theropods ‘habitually inhabited other environments in other areas’, unlike Albertosaurus and the ornithomimosaurs.
Origin
1980s: from modern Latin Ornithomimosauria, from Greek ornis, ornith- 'bird' + mimos 'mime' + sauros 'lizard'.