Dinosaurs · Small theropod
Saurornithoides
Say it sore-OR-nith-OID-eez. The name means ‘bird-like lizard’.
- Length
- 3 m
- Diet
- Meat-eater
- When
- Late Cretaceous85 to 80 million years ago
- Fossils found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Osborn (1924)
- Family tree
- Dinosauria › Saurischia › Theropoda › Troodontidae
Small theropods. Small two-legged dinosaurs, many feathered, the group that includes birds. See all 60
Lived at the same time
- Alectrosaurus · same country
- Bagaceratops · same country
- Microceratus · same country
- Oviraptor · same country
- Anserimimus · same country
- Borogovia · same country
- Achillobator · same country
- Citipati · same country
Other small theropods
- Oviraptor Late Cretaceous
- Bambiraptor Late Cretaceous
- Borogovia Late Cretaceous
- Masiakasaurus Late Cretaceous
- Noasaurus Late Cretaceous
- Pyroraptor Late Cretaceous
- Alvarezsaurus Late Cretaceous
- Citipati Late Cretaceous
Source: Saurornithoides in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.