page_title: Garudimimus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Garudimimus / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Skeletal restoration of Garudimimus brevipes'
context_page_description: Garudimimus is a basal ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.
context_section_description: Garudimimus was a rather small ornithomimosaur. In 2010, Gregory S. Paul estimated its adult length at 2.5 metres (8.2 ft), the weight at thirty kilogrammes (66 lbs). The length of the femur is 371 millimetres.
  Garudimimus, an early ornithomimosaurian, appears to have not been as adapted for speed as more derived ornithomimids. It had relatively short legs, heavy feet, and in the hip, shorter ilia, the latter indicating that the musculature of the legs was not as well-developed as in most ornithomimids. The foot had four toes and a vestige of the first digit, whereas all (other) ornithomimids were three-toed with the first and fifth toe lost. The toothless skull has very straight jaws ending in a more rounded snout tip than that of others of the group, and larger eyes.
  It was previously thought that this "primitive" member of Ornithomimosauria possessed a lacrimal horn at the top of the skull, in front of the eye socket. However, recent studies have shown that this "horn" was simply the shifted pointed back end of the nasal bone. Another early mistake was the suggestion by Thomas Holtz that the foot had been incorrectly reconstructed and would in fact have been arctometatarsalian, with the top of the third metatarsal excluded from the front surface of the metatarsus, proving a close relationship of the Ornithomimosauria with the Tyrannosauroidea which show the same condition. Kobayashi concluded that the original description of Barsbold had been correct on this point.
caption: Diagram showing known elements of the holotype
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