Gallimimus - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gallimimus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Gallimimus at the Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Family:	Ornithomimidae
Genus:	Gallimimus
Species
G. bullatus

Gallimimus (chicken mimic) was a fast-running dinosaur. It had a long, thin, flattened, toothless, horny beak, a small head, and a relatively large brain. Gallimimus lived in the Upper Cretaceous, about 75-70 million years ago.

The bottom front part of its beak was shaped like a shovel. It had large eyes positioned on opposite sites of its head, ruling out binocular vision (depth perception). It had a long neck, long tail, and long legs. Gallimimus was about 13-20 ft (4-6 m) long, was 6.3 ft (1.9 m) tall at the hips, and may have weighed about 970 pounds (440 kg).

These were probably among the fastest of all dinosaurs.^[1] Like many other coelurosaurs, the ornithomimid hide was probably feathered rather than scaly.

The dinosaur appeared on-screen, in the motion picture Jurassic Park.