Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado
Author
Kenneth Carpenter
Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, U. S. A.
Author
D. Bruce Young
Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, U. S. A.
text
Rocky Mountain Geology
2002
37
237
254
journal article
10.2113/gsrocky.37.2.237
41bd81a8-8d16-41cb-950f-8fab1660f845
3943081
Suborder
THEROPODA
Family
ORNITHOMIMIDAE
Omithomimus
velox
Figure 6
Material.
— YPM 542 cotype left distal end of tibia, metatarsals II-IV, phalanges I-1-3, YPM 548 cotype metacarpals I—III (Denver Formation, Loc. 35); DMNH 33300 manus claw (Denver Formation, Loc. 19); UCM 3539 phalanx (Denver Formation; Loc. 27); UCM 47633 distal caudal (Denver Formation, Loc. 27); and USGS D902 manus claw (Denver Formation?; Loc. 15).
Description
and
discussion. —The type material was briefly described by Marsh (1890; see also 1896a, 1896
b
), with additional comments about the taxon by Osborn (1916),
Russell (1972)
, and
DeCourten
and Russell (1985)
. As a whole, the limb material is proportionally more gracile than other ornithomimids such as Garudimimus or even
Struthiomimus.
Additional specimens, primarily unguals, have been found elsewhere in the Denver Basin, but only from the Denver Formation. DMNH 33300 is a nearly complete ungual, 40 mm long.