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ornithomimid

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Noun1.ornithomimid - lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyesornithomimid - lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes
bird-footed dinosaur, theropod, theropod dinosaur - any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
Ornithomimida, suborder Ornithomimida - lightly built medium-size theropods
struthiomimus - small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions
deinocheirus - lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck


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Such a feeding strategy would help explain why paleontologists have found most ornithomimid remains in sediments deposited in lakes, rivers, and other wet environments, Makovicky notes.
 
 
 
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