ornitholestid

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ornitholestid

noun ornitholestids

rare Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae. E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).

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@misc{ornitholestid_2026,
  title = {ornitholestid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ornitholestid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}