Gallimimus

Gallimimus Fossil range: Upper Cretaceous
Gallimimus at the Natural History Museum, London.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria Order: Saurischia Suborder: Theropoda Family: Ornithomimidae Genus: Gallimimus Osmólska, Roniewics & Barsbold, 1972
Species
G. bullatus Osmólska, Roniewics & Barsbold, 1972 (type)

Gallimimus (rooster mimic) was a fast-running dinosaur. It had a long, thin, flattened, toothless, horny beak, a small head, and a relatively large brain. Gallimimus lived in the late Cretaceous epoch, about 75-70 million years ago.

Description

The bottom front part of its beak was shaped like a shovel. It had large eyes positioned on opposite sites of its head, ruling out binocular vision (depth perception). It had a long neck, long tail, and long legs. Gallimimus was about 13-20 ft (4-6 m) long, was 6.3 ft (1.9 m) tall at the hips, and may have weighed about 970 pounds (440 kg).

In popular culture

The dinosaur appeared on-screen, in the motion picture Jurassic Park.