Dinosaur
Garudimimus
Its fossils come from the Mongolian locality of Bayshin Tsav.
Garudimimus is an example of how much re-studying an already known fossil can contribute.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Garudimimus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivory / omnivory debated
- A toothless beak is not enough to establish its exact diet. Plants, small animals, or a combination of both have been proposed.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Deinocheiridae
- Deinocheirids
- Fossil locations
- Mongolia
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Garudimimus
It is known from a single specimen found and described in 1981. Its detailed revision in 2005 corrected several previous interpretations of the anatomy of this ornithomimosaur.
Its fossils come from the Mongolian locality of Bayshin Tsav. A detailed re-examination corrected ideas about its anatomy decades after its description. New discoveries can come from understanding an existing bone better, as well as finding another one.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Garudimimus brevipes
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- Garudimimus
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- Deinocheiridae
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- Living birds
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Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.
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