Definitions
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- n. A member of the Oviraptoridae, birdlike maniraptoran dinosaurs.
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- n. advanced carnivorous theropod
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Examples
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The most recently named oviraptorid is Nemegtomaia barsboldi from the Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation (Lü et al. 2004, 2005).
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The affinities of this taxon are uncertain – it may be a caenagnathid and not an oviraptorid.
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The embryo is significant in that it was the specimen that demonstrated that most/some eggs attributed to Protoceratops were actually oviraptorid eggs.
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New oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Nemegt Formation of southwestern Mongolia.
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A new oviraptorid (Theropod [sic]: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Nanxiong Basin, Guangdong Province of southern China.
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It turns out that Oviraptor was comparatively long-skulled for an oviraptorid and it may have been the most basal oviraptorine (Clark et al. 2002).
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The poor creature looks as if the special effects artists took one of the Jurassic Park raptors, stuck a crest from an oviraptorid dinosaur on its head, and then gave it a bad toupee.
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Fossilized egg of the oviraptorid Citipati, American Museum of Natural
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