Archaeornithoides

Archaeornithoides is a Théropode discovered in 1965 in Mongolia in the formation of Djadokhta (Bayn Dzak). This dinosaur of the Cretaceous was described by Elzanowski and Al in 1992. It is phylogenetically near to the bird. The incomplete cranium of Archaeornithoides presents characters present at the Spinosauroidea, the Tyrannosauroidea and the Troodontidae; moreover some make a youthful Saurornithoides of it. Holtz et al., 2004, classify it in the great group of the Coelurosauria.

Its name means Like old bird

Time: Cretaceous superior (99.6-65 MY.)

Size: 1 m length (young person)

Habitat: Mongolia

food Mode: Carnivore

Inventory of the found fossils

ZPAL MgD-II/29: a youthful cranium 30 mm length partial, composed of the upper maxilla with teeth, like some bones of the palate.

Publications

Elzanowski, A. and Wellnhofer, P. (1992). With new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous off Mongolia. Nature, vol.359, 821-823
Elzanowski, A. and Wellnhofer, P. (1993). Skull off Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus from the Upper Cretaceous off Mongolia. American Newspaper off Science, vol. 293-A-A. P. 235-252

Internal bonds

See List of the dinosaurs

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