#oviraptorosaur

[cypressure]

Citipes elegans

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 22/03/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Sauroposeidon, Thescelosaurus, Vespersaurus, and Knoetschkesuchus

[dinobeates]

look i know i should probably hold out until the updated designs are completed but i couldn't make it

@deinocheirus's Most Handsome Managian Man

[nathan-e-rogers]

I got a 3D Printer! I have an idea for a tabletop Dinosaur survival game - would anyone be interested in such a thing? The dice are my own sculpt featuring dromaeosaur claws for 1 and 2, and theropod footprints for 3-6. The figurine is a Citipati oviraptorosaur model I made, printed at roughly 1:60 scale on a 30mm base. More to come.

[taphonomenon]

Childhood Trauma

Oviraptor/Citipati

From Dinosaur Planet 2003

[tine5]

Nesting oviraptorosaur

[harmonykayjones]

Yeah….

[randomanimaloftheday]

Day 178#: Apatoraptor pennatus

Merry day seven of Dino-December! Today's animal of the day is Apatoraptor pennatus!

Image credit: S. Mohr

This species of theropod dinosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Canada. As you can probably tell from its appearance, it is a distant cousin of Oviraptor and belonged to the Oviraptorosaur group. However, the two dinosaurs were actually in two separate sister families, with Oviraptor being in the Oviraptorid family and Apatoraptor belonging to a closely related family called Caenagnathidae. Apatoraptor actually has kind of a sad/interesting, with its remains being first discovered in 1993 at the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. They were originally classified as an ornithomimid dinosaur and were deemed relatively unimportant, so it wasn't until 2002 that paleontologists first began prepping the specimen for study. However, the paleontologists working on Apatoraptor (which hadn't yet been named or even identified as a new species) almost immediately abandoned it since they assumed that the specimen didn't have a skull, recovered it in plaster, and put it in storage until 2008, when it was identified as an entirely new genus of Oviraptorosaur.

Image credit: cisiopurple on DeviantArt

It would then have to wait until 2016 to finally be properly named and described. The genus name Apatoraptor means "deceptive thief" since it was apparently hiding its identity for so long. Honestly, that's so disrespectful. He wasn't being deceptive! You were the ones labeling him as "unimportant"! Why are paleontologists always bullying Oviraptorosaurs? Anyways, it was also given the species name pennatus, which means "feathered", since it had fossilized quill knobs present on its ulna, meaning that it had wings. Oh, and by the way, the holotype specimen did in fact have a skull, or at least part of its skull and lower jaws, as well as its hyoid, all of its neck and back vertebrae, ribs, its right shoulder girdle and right arm, its sternum, belly ribs, ilium, and some leg bones. WHY DID THEY JUST DISREGARD HIM LIKE THAT?!? BE NICE TO HIM!!!