Pelecanimimus

General Information
Pelecanimimus polyodon was an ornithomimid that filter-fed on shrimp during the Cretaceous. It was the favored prey item of the carcharodontosaurid Concavenator, which lived at the same time and area. Pelecanimimus was one of the few ornithomimids that kept its teeth, and used them to help snatch krill and shrimp, and its diet gave it a pinkish hue, similar to a flamingo's today.

Pelecanimimus (Meaning "Pelican Mimic") is a basal genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Pelecanimimus polyodon grow is estimated at 6-8 feet in length. At the end of the long and narrow skull is a small, keratinous crest. Pelecanimimus polyodon is also notable for having more teeth than any other onithomimosaurid, most of which were toothless and beaked, at 220 very small teeth in total. Harpymimus okladnikovi is the only other one found with teeth, although containing much less. This Pelecanimimus is depicted having a reddish-pink hue in its fur from the fish and shrimp that it has fed on, in a similar manner to a flamingo today.

Design
The Pelecanimimus polyodon is a unique dinosaur. It is the only known depiction from DinoCoat of a dinosaur whose feathers were completely red, with a paler complexion around the face, on the outside of the arms and legs, and at the end of its long tail. The bottom half of the legs also lack feather covering, reflecting the aquatic-related lifestyle it held. Pelecanimimus was within the only two ornithomimids discovered with teeth, and the only one known to have a keratinous crest.