| Timimus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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| Holotypic left femur of T. hermani, NMV P186303 | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
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