💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ornithomimidae"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ornithomimosauria | ("bird-mimic lizards") theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to the modern-day ostrich. |
| ornithomimusnoun | (paleontology) Any relatively small theropod dinosaur of the genus †Ornithomimus, the first genus of the ornithomimids to be described. |
| ornithischia | an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. |
| ornithosuchidae | an extinct family of pseudosuchian archosaurs (distant relatives of modern crocodilians) from the Triassic period. |
| struthiomimus | Struthiomimus, meaning "ostrich-mimic" (from the Greek στρούθειος/stroutheios, or "of the ostrich", and μῖμος/mimos, meaning "mimic" or "imitator"), is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of North America. |
| struthionidae | a family of flightless birds, containing the extant ostriches and their extinct relatives. |
| ornithocheiromorpha | (from Ancient Greek, meaning "bird hand form") a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. |
| oviraptoridae | a group of bird-like, herbivorous and omnivorous maniraptoran dinosaurs. |
| pelagornithidae | The Pelagornithidae, commonly called pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed birds or pseudotooth birds, are a prehistoric family of large seabirds. |
| archaeopteryxnoun | Alternative spelling of archeopteryx. [(paleontology) A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.] |
| teratornithidae | an extinct family of very large birds of prey that lived in North and South America from the Late Oligocene to Late Pleistocene. |
| coelurosauria | (from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs. |
| hadrosauridae | Hadrosaurids, or hadrosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. |
| ichthyornis | (meaning "fish bird", after its fish-like vertebrae) an extinct genus of toothy seabird-like ornithuran from the late Cretaceous period of North America. |
| maniraptoriformes | — |
| heterodontosauridae | a family of ornithischian dinosaurs that were likely among the most basal (primitive) members of the group. |
| maniraptora | a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs which includes the birds and the non-avian dinosaurs that were more closely related to them than to Ornithomimus velox. |
| anchiornis | a genus of small, four-winged paravian dinosaurs, with only one known species, the type species Anchiornis huxleyi, named for its similarity to modern birds. |
| avimimus | Avimimus, meaning "bird mimic" (Latin avis = bird + mimus = mimic), is a genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur, named for its bird-like characteristics, that lived in the late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia, around 85 to 70 million years ago. |
| metriacanthosauridae | (Greek for "moderately-spined lizards") an extinct family of allosauroid theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. |
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