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- noun biology Any of a group of
beaked ,feathered dinosaurs of the infraorder Oviraptorosauria
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A new oviraptorosaur (Theropoda, Maniraptora) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Utah.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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They include the probable oviraptorosaur Thecocoelurus (represented by just half of a single neck vertebra!) and the tyrannosaur Eotyrannus, named in 2001.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Likewise the oviraptorosaur, the animal with a beak and bony crest on it's head in the middle image, incorporates feathers from research on an earlier oviraptorosaur find in China.
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Pinnate feathers and within-feather color patterns first appear in Maniraptora, observed in the striped pinnate tail feathers of the oviraptorosaur
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(incidentally, for more on oviraptorosaurs go to Luis Rey and the new oviraptorosaur panoply).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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(incidentally, for more on oviraptorosaurs go to Luis Rey and the new oviraptorosaur panoply).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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