Thursday, September 03, 2015

Beishanlong Thursday





The remains of Beishanlong are incomplete, but it enough has been found telling it is a Ornithomimosaur and being estimated 8 meters long a very large one at that. Beishanlong was as large as Gallimius, may have exceed them. Although the skull of Beishanlong remains unknown at the time of writing, it's possible that it may have retained teeth within a keratinous beak like other primitive Ornithomimosaur forms such as Harpymimus and Pelecanimimus. This idea is based upon comparison to other Ornithomimosaur forms which are know from the early/mid Cretaceous period. In later genera such as Ornithomimus and Struthiomimus the teeth would be lost completely, something which is the root cause of the confusion regarding what Ornithomimosaur ate.


        

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