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Saurornithoides
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- Pronounced
- sore-OR-nith-OID-eez
- Meaning of name
- bird-like lizard
- Length
- 3m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(85 - 80 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Avetherapoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptoria, Troodontidae, Saurornithoides
- Named by
- Osborn (1924)
- Type species
- mongoliensis