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Oviraptor

Osteichthyes - Oviraptoridae

Taxonomy

Oviraptor was named by Osborn (1924). It is the type genus of Oviraptoroidea. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was assigned to Ornithomiminae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958); to Ornithomimidae by Osborn (1924), Huene (1927), Gilmore (1933), Young (1944), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970); to Caenagnathidae by Thulborn (1984), Gauthier (1986), Dong (1992); to Oviraptorinae by Barsbold (1981), Barsbold (1983), Paul (1988), Currie (2000), Osmólska et al. (2004), Longrich et al. (2010); and to Oviraptoridae by Barsbold (1976), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988), Currie (1992), Padian (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sues (1997), Sereno (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sereno (1998), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Norell et al. (2001), Maryanska et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Lü et al. (2004), Lü and Zhang (2005), Xu and Han (2010), Fanti et al. (2012), Lü et al. (2013), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2017), Funston (2020).

Species

O. philoceratops

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1924	Oviraptor Osborn pp. 7-12 figs. 6-8
1927	Oviraptor Huene p. 272
1928	Oviraptor Nopcsa p. 183
1933	Oviraptor Gilmore p. 26
1939	Oviraptor Kuhn p. 55
1944	Oviraptor Young p. 190
1956	Oviraptor Romer p. 613
1958	Oviraptor Huene p. 205
1964	Oviraptor Tatarinov p. 533
1966	Oviraptor Romer p. 369
1970	Oviraptor Steel p. 20
1970	Oviraptor Swinton p. 135
1976	Oviraptor Barsbold pp. 221-222
1977	Oviraptor Rozhdestvensky p. 112
1981	Oviraptor Barsbold
1983	Oviraptor Barsbold p. 91
1984	Oviraptor Thulborn p. 132
1986	Oviraptor Gauthier p. 9
1988	Oviraptor Carroll
1988	Oviraptor Paul p. 375
1992	Oviraptor Currie p. 246
1992	Oviraptor Dong p. 164
1997	Oviraptor Barsbold p. 448
1997	Oviraptor Padian p. 534
1997	Oviraptor Sereno p. 457
1997	Oviraptor Sues p. 710
1998	Oviraptor Makovicky and Sues p. 19
1998	Oviraptor Sereno p. 65
2000	Oviraptor Currie pp. 437-438
2001	Oviraptor Norell et al. p. 13
2002	Oviraptor Maryanska et al. p. 101 fig. 1
2003	Oviraptor Rauhut p. 40
2004	Oviraptor Lü et al. p. 112 fig. 8
2004	Oviraptor Osmólska et al. p. 166
2005	Oviraptor Lü and Zhang p. 417
2010	Oviraptor Longrich et al. p. 953 fig. 7
2010	Oviraptor Xu and Han p. 12
2012	Oviraptor Fanti et al. p. 10
2013	Oviraptor Longrich et al. p. 41 fig. 14
2013	Oviraptor Lü et al.
2014	Oviraptor Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6
2015	Oviraptor Lü et al.
2017	Oviraptor Tsuihiji et al. p. 10
2020	Oviraptor Funston p. 136 fig. 20

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
infraorder	Oviraptorosauria
family	Oviraptoridae
genus	Oviraptor

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Oviraptor Osborn 1924

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†Oviraptor philoceratops Osborn 1924

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
R. Barsbold 1981	Oviraptorids with large curved and laterally compressed unguals of the second and third finger.

Measurements

part	N	mean
femur circumference	1	93.0
tibia circumference	1	83.0

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteg

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10g

Adult width:

0.1 to < 1.0g

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10g

Maximum body mass:

30 kgg

Minimum body mass:

10 kgg

Thickness:

intermediateinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseg

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsg

Grouping:

solitaryg

Environment:

terrestrialg

Locomotion:

actively mobileg

Life habit:

ground dwellingg

Depth habitat:

surfaceinfrao

Diet:

omnivoreg

Reproduction:

oviparousg

Brooding:

yesg

Dispersal:

direct/internalg

Dispersal 2:

mobileg

Created:

2004-12-14 12:52:07

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:18:49

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Marsh 1875, Averianov and Yarkov 2004

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Campanian or 89.80000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	Kazakhstan (Turkistan)	O. sp. (53132)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mongolia (Ömnögovi Aimag)	Oviraptorosauria indet. (130798)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mongolia (Omnogov)	Fenestrosaurus philoceratops (46152)