Ingenia
Field photograph to come
Ingenia
DV-0273 · type species Heyuannia yanshini
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Barsbold 1981
Field notes
About Ingenia
Ingenia was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Oviraptoridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ingenia, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Barsbold in 1981.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. Barsbold. 1981. Bezzubyye khishchnyye dinozavry Mongolii [Toothless carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Sovmestnaia Sovetsko-Mongol’skaia Paleontologicheskaia Ekspeditsiia Trudy 15:28-39