''Ornithomimoides'' ("bird mimic-like") is a dubious

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of theropod

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, from the

Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the ...

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Maastrichtian The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval from ...

stage, sometime between 70 and 66 mya) Lameta Formation of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Two species have been identified, the type species ''O. mobilis'' and ''O. barasimlensis'', were named by von Huene in 1932 and were described by Matley in 1933 though they are known only from isolated

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e. ''O. barasimlensis'' is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and ''O. mobilis'' from four smaller vertebrae, found at the same location. It is possible that, based on two reviews, published in 1999 and 2004 respectively, ''Ornithomimoides'' may have been an abelisaur, which may have measured between and in length.Novas, Agnolin and Bandyopadhyay. (2004). Cretaceous theropods from India: A review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). ''Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat.'', n.s. 6(1): 67-103.

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Late Cretaceous dinosaurs Dinosaurs of India and Madagascar Ceratosaurs Fossil taxa described in 1933 Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene Taxa named by Charles Alfred Matley Nomina dubia {{Theropod-stub

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