Tyrannomimus fukuiensis
Tyrannomimus is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Japan. The type species is Tyrannomimus fukuiensis.

S Hattori, M Shibata, S Kawabe, T Imai, H Nishi & Y Azuma · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TyrannomimusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tyrannomimus fukuiensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Kitadani Formation · Tetori Group1
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The named rock units Tyrannomimus fukuiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tyrannomimus fukuiensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tyrannomimus fukuiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Adocus1 site
- Amiiformes1 site
- Brachiosauridae1 site
- Eobaataridae1 site
- Fukuipteryx prima1 site
- Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis1 site
- Fukuisaurus tetoriensis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Goniopholididae1 site
- Nagdongia sp.1 site
- Nanhsiungchelyidae1 site
- Nippononaia1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Plicatounio1 site
- Pseudohyria1 site
- Sinemydidae1 site
- Spinosauridae1 site
- Stegosauridae1 site
- Testudinoidea1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Triconodontidae1 site
- Trigonioides1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tyrannomimus fukuiensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tyrannomimus fukuiensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- S Hattori, M Shibata, S Kawabe, T Imai, H Nishi & Y Azuma
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tyrannomimus fukuiensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTyrannomimus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hattori et al. 2023