- feathers).
Evidence for
feathered oviraptorosaurs exists in
several forms. Most directly, four
species of
primitive oviraptorosaurs (in the
genera Caudipteryx...
-
toothless and
ended in a
keratinous beak, as seen in
other oviraptorosaurs.
Though several oviraptorosaur species are
known to have
developed a full coat of feathers...
- "primitive" forward-pointing hip seen in
advanced troodontids and
oviraptorosaurs is an
evolutionary reversal, and that
these groups evolved from ancestors...
-
dinosaur clades found in
Laramidia (troodontids,
therizinosaurids and
oviraptorosaurs) are
absent from
Appalachia from the
Coniacian through the Maastrichtian...
-
include all
dinosaurs which are more
closely related to
birds than to
oviraptorosaurs. The
ancestral paravian is the
earliest common ancestor of birds, dromaeosaurids...
- †Caudipteridae (bird-like,
basal oviraptorosaurs) †Caenagnathoidea (c****owary-like
oviraptorosaurs) †Caenagnathidae (toothless
oviraptorosaurs known from
North America...
- Mendonca, S. E.; Currie, P. J.; Barsbold, R.; Barsbold, R. (2018). "
Oviraptorosaur anatomy,
diversity and
ecology in the
Nemegt Basin". Palaeogeography...
-
example of a
North American oviraptorosaur.
According to Sues, "for
almost a
hundred years, the
presence of
oviraptorosaurs in
North America was only known...
- Maniraptora, a
group of
theropods which includes dromaeosaurids and
oviraptorosaurs,
among others. As
scientists have
discovered more
theropods closely...
- V.
mongoliensis restraining an
oviraptorosaur with its
sickle claws...