Ovoraptor
Field photograph to come
Ovoraptor
DV-0125 · type species Ovoraptor djadochtari
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Osborn 1924
Field notes
About Ovoraptor
Ovoraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Ovoraptor, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Djadokhta Formation. It was named by Osborn in 1924.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Theropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology DatabaseNamed in: H. F. Osborn. 1924. The discovery of an unknown continent. Natural History 24(2):133-149