Timimus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Holotypic left femur of T. hermani, NMV P186303 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Genus: | †Timimus Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1993 |
Species: | †T. hermani
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Binomial name | |
†Timimus hermani Rich & Vickers-Rich, 1993
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Timimus is a genus of small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. It was originally identified as an ornithomimosaur, but now it is thought to be a different kind of theropod, possibly a tyrannosauroid.[1]