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Oviraptorosauria

Barsbold 1976

Les Oviraptorosauria forment un clade fossile de dinosaures théropodes proches des oiseaux. Ils vivaient en Amérique du Nord et en Asie et ont disparu au cours de l'extinction de la fin du Crétacé il y a environ 66 Ma.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
193
Groupe
Dinosaures
Omnivore Vivant au sol (surface) Terrestre
Oviraptorosauria
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Theropoda Clade non classé
Neotheropoda Clade non classé
Averostra Clade non classé
Tetanurae Clade non classé
Coelurosauria Clade non classé
Maniraptora Clade non classé
Oviraptorosauria Infraordre
Sites de découverte 193 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
58
🇲🇳 Mongolie
41
🇨🇦 Canada
41
🇨🇳 Chine
37
🇺🇿 Ouzbékistan
7
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
2
🇲🇽 Mexique
2
🇮🇹 Italie
1
🇹🇯 Tadjikistan
1
🇵🇱 Pologne
1
Formations géologiques
Nemegt
23
Aguja
7
Yixian
6
Hekou
5
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
85
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
79
Santonien (85.7–83.6 Ma)
1
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
1
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
8
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
3
Albien (113.2–100.5 Ma)
9
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
6
Bibliographie
Description originale
R. Barsbold. 1976. K evolyutsii i sistematike pozdnemezozoyskikh khishchnykh dinozavrov [The evolution and systematics of late Mesozoic carnivorous dinosaurs]. In N. N. Kramarenko, B. Luvsandansan, Y. I. Voronin, R. Barsbold, A. K. Rozhdestvensky, B. A. Trofimov & V. Y. Reshetov (eds.), Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transactions 3:68-75
Bibliographie (120)
W. Foster, M. A. Norell, and A. M. Balanoff. 2025. Two new specimens of Conchoraptor gracilis (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 2025(4033):1–68 DOI ↗
M. Hao, Z. Li, and Z. Wang, S. Wang, F. Ma, Qinggele, J. Logan King, R. Pei, Q. Zhao, X. Xu. 2025. A new oviraptorosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of western Inner Mongolia, China. Cretaceous Research 167(78):106023 DOI ↗
K. A. Atkins-Weltman, D. J. Simon, and H. N. Woodward, G. F. Funston, E. Snively . 2024. A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America. PLoS ONE 19:e0294901:1 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, T. E. Williamson, and S. L. Brusatte. 2024. A caenagnathid tibia (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the upper Campanian Kirtland Formation of New Mexico. Cretaceous Research DOI ↗
J. Słowiak, S. L. Brusatte, and T. Szczygielski. 2024. Reassessment of the enigmatic Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaur, Bagaraatan ostromi. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(3):1–39 DOI ↗
S. L. Wick, T. M. Lehman, and J. D. Fortner. 2024. New caenagnathid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) dinosaur specimens from middle and upper Campanian strata of West Texas. Geobios 82:93-116 DOI ↗
Q. Wu, J. K. O’Connor, and S. Wang, Z. Zhou. 2024. Transformation of the pectoral girdle in pennaraptorans: critical steps in the formation of the modern avian shoulder joint. PeerJ 12:e16960 DOI ↗
M. Antonelli, M. Romano, and F. De Sario, J. Pignatti, E. Sacco, F. M. Petti. 2023. Inferred oviraptorosaur footprints in the Apenninic Carbonate Platform: new tools for the identification of trackmakers from the Sezze ichnosite (lower-middle Cenomanian; central Italy). Cretaceous Research 141 DOI ↗
R. K. Hunt-Foster, J. R. Foster, and J. J. Eberle, A. B. Heckert, J. H. Hartman, S. D. Sroka. 2023. New paleobiotic elements of the Williams Fork Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah, USA. 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota. The Anatomical Record 306 (S1)
Y. Lee, L. L. Jacobs, and P. J. Currie, R. Barsbold. 2023. Narrative of the Korea-Mongolian International Dinosaur expeditions (KID) 2006–2010 with scientific results. Windows into Sauropsid and Synapsid Evolution: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Jacobs
J. T. Voris, D. K. Zelenitsky, and F. Therrien. 2023. Caenagnathids (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Scollard Formation of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research DOI ↗
F. Fanti, P. R. Bell, and M. J. Vavrek, D. W. Larson, E. B. Koppelhus, R. L. Sissons, A. Langone, N. E. Campione, C. Sullivan. 2022. Filling the Bearpaw gap: evidence for palaeoenvironment-driven taxon distribution in a diverse, non-marine ecosystem from the late Campanian of west-central Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 592:110923 DOI ↗
C. I. Serrano-Brañas, B. Espinosa-Chávez, and S. A. Maccracken, D. Barrera Guevara, E. Torres-Rodríguez. 2022. First record of caenagnathid dinosaurs (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous), Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 119:104046 DOI ↗
X. Wei, M. Kundrát, and L. Xu, W. Ma, Y. Wu, H. Chang, J. Zhang, X. Zhou. 2022. A new subadult specimen of oviraptorid Yulong mini (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, central China. Cretaceous Research 138:105261 DOI ↗
L. Xing, K. Niu, and D. K. Zelenitsky, T.-R. Yang, S. L. Brusatte. 2022. An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures. iScience 25(1):103516 DOI ↗
S. Bi, R. Amiot, and C. Peyre de Fabrègues, M. Pittman, M. C. Lamanna, Y. Yu, C. Yu, T. Yang, S. Zhang, Q. Zhao, X. Xu. 2021. An oviraptorid preserved atop an embryo-bearing egg clutch sheds light on the reproductive biology of non-avialan theropod dinosaurs. Science Bulletin 66:947–954 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, P. J. Currie, and C. Tsogtbaatar, T. Khishigjav. 2021. A partial oviraptorosaur skeleton suggests low caenagnathid diversity in the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. PLoS ONE 16(7):e0254564:1-21 DOI ↗
W. W. Stein. 2021. The paleontology, geology and taphonomy of the Tooth Draw Deposit; Hell Creek Formation (Maastrictian), Butte County, South Dakota. The Journal of Paleontological Sciences JPS.C.21:0001:1-108
K. Tsujimura, M. Manabe, and Y. Chiba, T. Tsuihiji. 2021. Metatarsals of a large caenagnathid cf. Anzu wyliei (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences DOI ↗
C.-g. Yun and G. F. Funston. 2021. A caenagnathid oviraptorosaur metatarsal from the Mesaverde Formation (Campanian) of Wyoming, USA. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 9:105-115 DOI ↗
T. M. Cullen, D. J. Simon, and E. K. C. Benner, D. C. Evans. 2020. Morphology and osteohistology of a large‐bodied caenagnathid (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) from the Hell Creek Formation (Montana): implications for size‐based classifications and growth reconstruction in theropods. Papers in Palaeontology DOI ↗
Ł. Czepiński. 2020. New protoceratopsid specimens improve the age correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Gobi Desert strata. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(3):481-497 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston. 2020. Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 8:105-153 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, T. Chinzorig, and K. Tsogtbaatar, Y. Kobayashi, C. Sullivan, P. J. Currie. 2020. A new two-fingered dinosaur sheds light on the radiation of Oviraptorosauria. Royal Society Open Science 7(104643):201184:1-15 DOI ↗
X. Jin, D. J. Varricchio, and A. W. Poust, T. He. 2020. An oviraptorosaur adult-egg association from the Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(6):e1739060:1-16 DOI ↗
R. T. Tucker, L. E. Zanno, and H. -Q. Huang, P. J. Makovicky. 2020. A refined temporal framework for newly discovered fossil assemblages of the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Mussentuchit Member), Mussentuchit Wash, Central Utah. Cretaceous Research 110:104384 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, P. J. Currie, and M. J. Ryan, Z.-M. Dong. 2019. Birdlike growth and mixed-age flocks in avimimids (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria). Scientific Reports 9:18816:1-21 DOI ↗
S. Lee, Y.-N. Lee, and A. Chinsamy, J. Lü, R. Barsbold, K. Tsogtbaatar. 2019. A new baby oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. PLoS ONE 14:e0210867:1-25 DOI ↗
R. Qiu, X. Wang, and Q. Wang, N. Li, J. Zhang, Y. Ma. 2019. A new caudipterid from the Lower Cretaceous of China with information on the evolution of the manus of Oviraptorosauria. Scientific Reports 9(1):6431:1-10 DOI ↗
D. J. Simon, D. J. Varricchio, and Z. Jin, S. F. Robison. 2019. Microstructural overlap of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from Asia and North America expands the occurrence of colossal oviraptorosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(6):e1553046:1-16 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, S. E. Mendonca, and P. J. Currie, R. Barsbold. 2018. Oviraptorosaur anatomy, diversity and ecology in the Nemegt Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 494:101-120 DOI ↗
M. G. Lockley, B. Simmons, and S. E. Hirschfeld. 2018. A new dinosaur track locality in the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Laramie Formation of Colorado. Fossil Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:395-406
M. A. Norell, A. M. Balanoff, and D. E. Barta, G. M. Erickson. 2018. A second specimen of Citipati osmolskae associated with a nest of eggs from Ukhaa Tolgod, Omnogov Aimag, Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3899:1-44 DOI ↗
Y.-L. Yu, K.-B. Wang, and S.-Q. Chen, C. Sullivan, S. Wang, P.-Y. Wang, X. Xu . 2018. A new caenagnathid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Shandong, China, with comments on size variation among oviraptorosaurs. Scientific Reports 8:5030 DOI ↗
J. Lü, G. Li, and M. Kundrát, Y.-N. Lee, Z. Sun, Y. Kobayashi, C. Shen, F. Teng, H. Liu . 2017. High diversity of the Ganzhou oviraptorid fauna increased by a new “cassowary-like” crested species. Scientific Reports 7:6393:1-13 DOI ↗
H. Pu, D. K. Zelenitsky, and J. Lü, P. J. Currie, K. Carpenter, L. Xu, E. B. Koppelhus, S. Jia, L. Xiao, H. Chuang, T. Li, M. Kundrát, C. Shen. 2017. Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China. Nature Communications 8:14952:1-9 DOI ↗
T. Tsuihiji, L. M. Witmer, and M. Watabe, R. Barsbold, K. Tsogtbaatar, S. Suzuki, P. Khatanbaatar. 2017. New information on the cranial morphology of Avimimus (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(4):e1347177:1-12 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston, P. J. Currie, and M. E. Burns. 2016. New elmisaurine specimens from North America and their relationship to the Mongolian Elmisaurus rarus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(1):159-173 DOI ↗
G. F. Funston and P. J. Currie. 2016. A new caenagnathid (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada, and a reevaluation of the relationships of Caenagnathidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(4):e1160910:1-18 DOI ↗
W. G. Joyce, T. R. Lyson, and S. Williams. 2016. New cranial material of Gilmoremys lancensis (Testudines, Trionychidae) from the Hell Creek Formation of southeastern Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6):e1225748:1-10 DOI ↗
J. Lü, R. Chen, and S. L. Brusatte, Y. Zhu, C. Shen. 2016. A Late Cretaceous diversification of Asian oviraptorid dinosaurs: evidence from a new species preserved in an unusual posture. Scientific Reports 6:35780:1-12 DOI ↗
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G. F. Funston, W. S. Persons, IV, and G. J. Bradley, P. J. Currie. 2015. New material of the large-bodied caenagnathid Caenagnathus collinsi from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 54(1):179-187 DOI ↗
G. D. Gierlinski. 2015. New dinosaur footprints from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland in the light of paleogeographic context. Ichnos 22(3–4):220-226 DOI ↗
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