Archaeornithoides
Sign in to saveArchaeornithoides is a genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
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- Parent taxon
- Troodontidae
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- Archaeornithoides skull.png
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- taxon name
- Archaeornithoides
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- genus
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- Archaeornithoides
- time period
- Late Cretaceous
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Archaeornithoides is a genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
==Discovery and naming== In 1965, a Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition found a fossil of a small dinosaur at Bayn Dzak, Mongolia. In 1983, the find was reported by Andrzej Elzanowski. The remains were named as the type species Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus by Elzanowski and Peter Wellnhofer in 1992. In 1993, they were described in more detail by the same authors.
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