# Oviraptor (Oviraptor philoceratops) — DinoLand

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### id=29: Oviraptor (Oviraptor philoceratops)

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- Diet: Omnivore
- Era: Cretaceous
- Period: 75 million years ago
- Length: 2 m
- Weight: ≈20–40 кг
- Height: 1 m
- Speed: до 50 km/h
- Habitat: Sandy alluvial fans and interdune ponds
- Region: Mongolia (Gobi Desert)
- Discovered: 1924, Roy Chapman Andrews’s Central Asiatic Expeditions

Fact: “Misnamed ‘egg thief’—brooding atop its own nest like a megapode.”

Description: Oviraptor is a caenagnathid oviraptorosaur distinguished by a short, deep, toothless beak well suited to cracking hard foods such as mollusks, seeds, or small vertebrates. Type specimens found atop eggs once ascribed to Protoceratops actually record paternal incubation posture analogous to modern birds. A low median crest likely marketed maturity or sex.

Features:
  - Beak morphology implies versatile omnivory
  - Cranial crests strengthened sexually dimorphic signaling
  - Brooding posture preserved in three dimensions atop clutches

Related genera: Citipati, Ingenia, Caenagnathus


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