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Oviraptor (/ ˈ oʊ v ɪ r æ p t ər /; lit. ' egg thief ') is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. The first remains were collected from the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1923 during a paleontological expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews, and in the following year the genus and type species Oviraptor philoceratops were named by Henry ...
In contrast, eggs associated with Oviraptor are only up to 14 cm long. [ 10 ] The first oviraptorid eggs (of the genus Oviraptor , which mean "Egg thief") were found in close proximity to the remains of the ceratopsian dinosaur Protoceratops and it was assumed that the oviraptorids were preying upon the eggs of the ceratopsians. [ 13 ]
Life restoration. Rinchenia was a small-sized oviraptorid, estimated at 1.7 m (5.6 ft) and a body mass of about 25 kg (55 lb). [6] Several features of its skeleton, especially in the skull, show it to be distinct from Oviraptor.
Gigantoraptor (lit. ' giant thief ') is a genus of large oviraptorosaur dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. It is known from the Iren Dabasu Formation of Inner Mongolia, where the first remains were found in 2005.
This list of nicknamed dinosaur fossils is a list of fossil non-avian dinosaur specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers.
In phylogenetic taxonomy, the clade Caenagnathidae is defined as the most inclusive group containing Caenagnathus collinsi but not Oviraptor philoceratops. [17] While before 2010s only about two to six species were commonly recognized as belonging to the Caenagnathidae, currently that number may be much greater, with new discoveries and ...
Soon, White Tip's eggs hatch, and she can go hunting with the others. This time, they make a successful attack on a Oviraptor nest. White Tip gives one of the dead Oviraptor children to her own, and both species of dinosaur infants, strangely, look similar, though it is noted that White Tip's children could have easily been Oviraptor food too ...