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Title: Bulgarian ornithomimosaur
Media: Schneider Topliner 934, 0.4 mm, red colour.
September, 2012.

Extremely speculative reconstruction of a putative ornithomimosaur from the late Cretaceous, probably Maastrichtian, of Bulgaria. Mateus et al, 2010, described fragment from left humerus of theropod dinosaur, which they suggested belongs to ornithomimosaur. This fossil bone is one of the few records of this dinosaurian group in Europe thus it helds some importance to the understanding of the taxonomic diversity of Dinosauria in late Cretaceous Europe and the paleobiogeographic history of the clade Ornithomimosauria.

After the description of Balaur bondoc (Csiki et al, 2010) (sorry, I'm awared that the name of the taxon have to be in italic but I don't know how to use italic on DA) it become clear that some late Cretaceous taxons have close relation to relatively contemporary taxons from Asia. This led me to the speculation that the Bulgarian ornithomimosaur could be somewhat related to the ornithomimosaurs from Asia like Gallimimus or the more primitive Sinornithomimus. That's why I decided to reconstruct it like a mixture between the both genera mentioned above. I tried to think about how the life on a inland with limited resources will affect the anatomy of an ornithomimosaur but due to the lack of a known example I couldn't come up with something concrete. I decide to give my dinosaur long forelimbs and proportionally longer neck, while making its torso shorter and somehow more bulky. The spiky stuff along the body is actually EBFFs which are speculative for this dinosaurian clade.

The kicking behaviour showed here is also speculative. Any similarities with other artoworks are coincidental (this is not based on Gregory S. Paul kicking Dilophosaurus).

References:
Mateus, O. G. J. Dyke, N. Motchurova-Dekova, G. D. Kamenov, P. Ivanov. 2010. The first record of a dinosaur from Bulgaria.- Lethaia, 43, 1, 88-94.
Skeletal drawing of Gallimimus bullatus by Scott Hartman.
Skeletal drawing of Sinornithomimus dongi by Gregory S. Paul.

Description
Title: Bulgarian ornithomimosaur
Media: Schneider Topliner 934, 0.4 mm, red colour.
September, 2012.

Extremely speculative reconstruction of a putative ornithomimosaur from the late Cretaceous, probably Maastrichtian, of Bulgaria. Mateus et al, 2010, described fragment from left humerus of theropod dinosaur, which they suggested belongs to ornithomimosaur. This fossil bone is one of the few records of this dinosaurian group in Europe thus it helds some importance to the understanding of the taxonomic diversity of Dinosauria in late Cretaceous Europe and the paleobiogeographic history of the clade Ornithomimosauria.

After the description of Balaur bondoc (Csiki et al, 2010) (sorry, I'm awared that the name of the taxon have to be in italic but I don't know how to use italic on DA) it become clear that some late Cretaceous taxons have close relation to relatively contemporary taxons from Asia. This led me to the speculation that the Bulgarian ornithomimosaur could be somewhat related to the ornithomimosaurs from Asia like Gallimimus or the more primitive Sinornithomimus. That's why I decided to reconstruct it like a mixture between the both genera mentioned above. I tried to think about how the life on a inland with limited resources will affect the anatomy of an ornithomimosaur but due to the lack of a known example I couldn't come up with something concrete. I decide to give my dinosaur long forelimbs and proportionally longer neck, while making its torso shorter and somehow more bulky. The spiky stuff along the body is actually EBFFs which are speculative for this dinosaurian clade.

The kicking behaviour showed here is also speculative. Any similarities with other artoworks are coincidental (this is not based on Gregory S. Paul kicking Dilophosaurus).

References:
Mateus, O. G. J. Dyke, N. Motchurova-Dekova, G. D. Kamenov, P. Ivanov. 2010. The first record of a dinosaur from Bulgaria.- Lethaia, 43, 1, 88-94.
Skeletal drawing of Gallimimus bullatus by Scott Hartman.
Skeletal drawing of Sinornithomimus dongi by Gregory S. Paul.