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Deinocheirus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
Information
Deinocheirus is only known from its arms, so reconstructions are mostly guesswork.
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- DINE-oh-KIRE-us
- Meaning of name
- terrible hand
- Length
- estimated 10m
- Diet
- unknown
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(70 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Mongolia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Avetherapoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Ornithomimosauria, Deinocheirus
- Named by
- Osmólska and Roniewicz (1970)
- Type species
- mirificus
