| rdfs:comment | - Comparitavely, Pelecanimimus is a rather tiny dinosaur of FMM UV-32 . It is roughly 7 feet long and about 3.5 feet high, dwarfing it in the shadow of the larger dinosaurs. It has a very light, greenish-yellow tail and body, with a pink head, arms and feet. Pelecanimimus is not adept at camouflage, and relies on its size and speed to avoid predators. Although Pelecanimimus is in a family of toothless, beaked dinosaurs, it actually has 200 teeth, more than many other dinosaurs. It is presumably an omnivore, so it probably did not use these teeth to tear large prey to pieces.
- Pelecanimimus (meaning "pelican mimic") is a genus represented by a single species of primitive (basal) ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. It is notable for possessing more teeth than any other member of the Ornithomimosauria, most of which were toothless. The only known specimen, discovered at Las Hoyas, consists of the articulated front half of a skeleton and includes the skull, all the neck vertebrae and most of the back vertebrae, ribs, sternum, the pectoral girdle, a complete right forelimb and most of the left forelimb. Pelecanimimus was the first ornithomimosaur discovered in Europe and is the oldest one discovered to date.
- In July 1993 Armando Díaz Romeral discovered a theropod skeleton at the Las Hoyas Unit 3 site. In 1994 this was named and described by Bernardino Pérez Pérez-Moreno, José Luis Sanz, Angela Buscalioni, José Moratalla, Francisco Ortega and Diego Rasskin-Gutman as a new species: Pelecanimimus polyodon. The generic name is derived from Latin pelecanus, "pelican", and mimus, "mimic", in reference to the long snout and throat pouch. The specific name is a reference to the large number of teeth possessed by this theropod and is derived from Greek πολύς (polys), "many" and ὀδούς (odous) "tooth".
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| abstract | - Comparitavely, Pelecanimimus is a rather tiny dinosaur of FMM UV-32 . It is roughly 7 feet long and about 3.5 feet high, dwarfing it in the shadow of the larger dinosaurs. It has a very light, greenish-yellow tail and body, with a pink head, arms and feet. Pelecanimimus is not adept at camouflage, and relies on its size and speed to avoid predators. Although Pelecanimimus is in a family of toothless, beaked dinosaurs, it actually has 200 teeth, more than many other dinosaurs. It is presumably an omnivore, so it probably did not use these teeth to tear large prey to pieces.
- Pelecanimimus (meaning "pelican mimic") is a genus represented by a single species of primitive (basal) ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. It is notable for possessing more teeth than any other member of the Ornithomimosauria, most of which were toothless. The only known specimen, discovered at Las Hoyas, consists of the articulated front half of a skeleton and includes the skull, all the neck vertebrae and most of the back vertebrae, ribs, sternum, the pectoral girdle, a complete right forelimb and most of the left forelimb. Pelecanimimus was the first ornithomimosaur discovered in Europe and is the oldest one discovered to date.
- In July 1993 Armando Díaz Romeral discovered a theropod skeleton at the Las Hoyas Unit 3 site. In 1994 this was named and described by Bernardino Pérez Pérez-Moreno, José Luis Sanz, Angela Buscalioni, José Moratalla, Francisco Ortega and Diego Rasskin-Gutman as a new species: Pelecanimimus polyodon. The generic name is derived from Latin pelecanus, "pelican", and mimus, "mimic", in reference to the long snout and throat pouch. The specific name is a reference to the large number of teeth possessed by this theropod and is derived from Greek πολύς (polys), "many" and ὀδούς (odous) "tooth". The holotype specimen, LH 7777, part of the Las Hoyas Collection presently housed at the Museo de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain, of Pelecanimimus was recovered at the La Hoyas locality in Cuenca Province, Spain, from lagerstätte beds within the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation dating to the Lower Barremian. The only known specimen consists of the articulated front half of a skeleton and includes the skull, lower jaws, all the neck vertebrae and most of the back vertebrae, ribs, sternum, the pectoral girdle, a complete right forelimb and most of the left forelimb. Remains of the soft parts are visible at the back of the skull, around the neck and around the front limbs.
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