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sharp-clawed runner · Disputed
Nomingia
Say it like this: “no-MING-gee-uh”
Nomingia gobiensis
Nomingia ate plants and meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2000 · Barsbold, R.; Osmólska, H.; Watabe, M.; Currie, P. J.; Tsogtbaatar, K.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1.7 m · 6 ft
- Weight
- 20 kg · 44 lb
- Found in
- Mongolia · Nemegt
- Food and walking
- Omnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Caenagnathidae
The story in short
The genus Nomingia dates to 2000, the year R. Barsbold and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Nomingia date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Nemegt Formation. It was an omnivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Nomingia at a length near 1.7 m and a body mass around 20 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Caenagnathidae, among the theropod dinosaurs.