Ornithomimoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}}

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| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|70|66}}

| image = Ornithomimoides mobilis.jpg

| image_caption = Illustration of a partial vertebra of O. mobilis, specimen K20/610

| taxon = Ornithomimoides

| authority = Huene, 1932 vide Huene and Matley, 1933

| type_species = {{extinct}}Ornithomimoides mobilis

| type_species_authority = von Huene and Matley, 1933

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}O. barasimlensis(?) von Huene and Matley, 1933

| synonyms = *Coeluroides? von Huene and Matley, 1933

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Ornithomimoides ("bird mimic-like") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage, sometime between 70 and 66 mya) Lameta Formation of India.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dinoruss.org/de_4/5a8e15d.htm |title=Ornithomimoides in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia at Dino Russ's Lair |access-date=2011-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528054655/http://www.dinoruss.org/de_4/5a8e15d.htm |archive-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead }} Two species have been identified, the type species O. mobilis and O. barasimlensis, were named by von Huene in 1932von Huene. (1932). Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monog. Geol. Pal. 4 (1) pts. 1 and 2, viii + 361 pp. and were described by Matley in 1933Huene and Matley. (1933). The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the central provinces of India. Pal. Indica 21 1-74, 33 figs., 24 pls.

though they are known only from isolated vertebrae. O. barasimlensis is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and O. mobilis from four smaller vertebrae, found at the same location.

{{Location map|India

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|caption= Ornithomimoides (both species O. mobilis and O. barasimlensis) type locality in Carnosaur beds, Bara Simla, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

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It is possible that, based on three reviews, published in 1999, 2004 and 2024 respectively, Ornithomimoides may have been an abelisaur, which may have measured between {{convert|6.2|m|ft}} and {{convert|9|m|ft}} in length.Novas and Bandyopaphyay. (1999). New approaches on the Cretaceous theropods from India. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, abstracts.Novas, Agnolin and Bandyopadhyay. (2004). Cretaceous theropods from India: A review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat., n.s. 6(1): 67-103.

{{Cite journal |last1=Mohabey |first1=Dhananjay M. |last2=Samant |first2=Bandana |last3=Vélez-Rosado |first3=Kevin I. |last4=Wilson Mantilla |first4=Jeffrey A. |date=2024-02-07 |title=A review of small-bodied theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of India, with description of new cranial remains of a noasaurid (Theropoda: Abelisauria) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2288088 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=43 |issue=3 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2023.2288088 |issn=0272-4634|url-access=subscription }}