Pelecanimimus
The pelecanimimus ( Pelecanimimus polydon ), or the “imitator of the Pelican”, is the oldest “dinosaur Autruche”, or Ornithomimosaure, known today. One to date knows of it one Squelette which, although incomplete, includes/understands a Crâne in excellent state, a neck, the two shoulders, part of the breast piece and prints of skin. It is the only dinosaur ostrich identified with certainty in Europe. It was found in the rocks definitely older than those sheltering the remainders of other Ornithomimosaures known.
It was an omnivore, just like good number of ornithomimosaures such Struthiomimus , pertaining to the order of the saurischiens, the sub-order of the théropodes and the family of the ornithomimidés . Its size could go up to 2 m and its weight could vary up to 25 kg. The only skeleton which one has of him was found with Las Hoyas in Spain on a large limestone plate, and one can certify today that he lived during the lower Crétacé, approximately 122 million years ago.
Contrary to other Ornithomimosaures where the cranium is deprived of teeth, Pelecaminus had, him, some 220 tiny Dent S resembling prickles. These teeth are equipped with fine serrations which were undoubtedly to be used to him to shred the flesh of the animals and to cut the sheets and the fruits of certain plants.
Pelecanimimus, in addition, is strewn with small osseous peaks. A line of small peaks surmounts each eye and a small peak arises with the back of cranium. ----
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