Pelicanomimus

Not to be confused with Pelecanimimus

Pelecanimimus is an extinct flightless bird-like non-avian theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous. They are named due to their pelican-like beaks when their fossils were first discovered in 1912 in Hell Creek, Montana, with a possible throat pouch it may have had to hunt and stuff small prey animals into their throats to swallow them whole. Due to the similar beak design and possible throat pouch, they may have lived in wet swamplands and/or shorelines, where they could have fed on fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods (including ammonites), both in very shallow waters and ones washed onto shore, so they might have had webbed feet as their foot bones suggests. They were about the size of the Sinornithomimus of China, being about the size of a wolf or a turkey, with the length about 7 feet long, very small compared to other Ornithomimids of the Late Cretaceous. They lived from 80.3 million years ago to about 66 million years ago when they finally became extinct for some reason.