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Oviraptor
Taxonomy
Oviraptor was named by Osborn (1924). It is the type genus of Oviraptoroidea. It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).
It was assigned to Ornithomiminae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939) and Huene (1958); to Ornithomimidae by Osborn (1924), Huene (1927), Gilmore (1933), Young (1944), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and Swinton (1970); to Caenagnathidae by Thulborn (1984), Gauthier (1986) and Dong (1992); to Oviraptorinae by Barsbold (1981), Barsbold (1983), Paul (1988), Currie (2000), Osmólska et al. (2004) and Longrich et al. (2010); and to Oviraptoridae by Barsbold (1976), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988), Currie (1992), Padian (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sues (1997), Sereno (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sereno (1998), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Norell et al. (2001), Maryanska et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Lü et al. (2004), Lü and Zhang (2005), Xu and Han (2010), Fanti et al. (2012), Lü et al. (2013), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2017) and Funston (2020).
It was assigned to Ornithomiminae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939) and Huene (1958); to Ornithomimidae by Osborn (1924), Huene (1927), Gilmore (1933), Young (1944), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970) and Swinton (1970); to Caenagnathidae by Thulborn (1984), Gauthier (1986) and Dong (1992); to Oviraptorinae by Barsbold (1981), Barsbold (1983), Paul (1988), Currie (2000), Osmólska et al. (2004) and Longrich et al. (2010); and to Oviraptoridae by Barsbold (1976), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Carroll (1988), Currie (1992), Padian (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sues (1997), Sereno (1997), Barsbold (1997), Sereno (1998), Makovicky and Sues (1998), Norell et al. (2001), Maryanska et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Lü et al. (2004), Lü and Zhang (2005), Xu and Han (2010), Fanti et al. (2012), Lü et al. (2013), Longrich et al. (2013), Lamanna et al. (2014), Lü et al. (2015), Tsuihiji et al. (2017) and Funston (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Oviraptor Osborn pp. 7-12 figs. 6-8 |
| 1927 | Oviraptor Huene p. 272 |
| 1928 | Oviraptor Nopcsa p. 183 |
| 1933 | Oviraptor Gilmore p. 26 |
| 1939 | Oviraptor Kuhn p. 55 |
| 1944 | Oviraptor Young p. 190 |
| 1956 | Oviraptor Romer p. 613 |
| 1958 | Oviraptor Huene p. 205 |
| 1964 | Oviraptor Tatarinov p. 533 |
| 1966 | Oviraptor Romer p. 369 |
| 1970 | Oviraptor Steel p. 20 |
| 1970 | Oviraptor Swinton p. 135 |
| 1976 | Oviraptor Barsbold pp. 221-222 |
| 1977 | Oviraptor Rozhdestvensky p. 112 |
| 1981 | Oviraptor Barsbold |
| 1983 | Oviraptor Barsbold p. 91 |
| 1984 | Oviraptor Thulborn p. 132 |
| 1986 | Oviraptor Gauthier p. 9 |
| 1988 | Oviraptor Carroll |
| 1988 | Oviraptor Paul p. 375 |
| 1992 | Oviraptor Currie p. 246 |
| 1992 | Oviraptor Dong p. 164 |
| 1997 | Oviraptor Barsbold p. 448 |
| 1997 | Oviraptor Padian p. 534 |
| 1997 | Oviraptor Sereno p. 457 |
| 1997 | Oviraptor Sues p. 710 |
| 1998 | Oviraptor Makovicky and Sues p. 19 |
| 1998 | Oviraptor Sereno p. 65 |
| 2000 | Oviraptor Currie pp. 437-438 |
| 2001 | Oviraptor Norell et al. p. 13 |
| 2002 | Oviraptor Maryanska et al. p. 101 fig. 1 |
| 2003 | Oviraptor Rauhut p. 40 |
| 2004 | Oviraptor Lü et al. p. 112 fig. 8 |
| 2004 | Oviraptor Osmólska et al. p. 166 |
| 2005 | Oviraptor Lü and Zhang p. 417 |
| 2010 | Oviraptor Longrich et al. p. 953 fig. 7 |
| 2010 | Oviraptor Xu and Han p. 12 |
| 2012 | Oviraptor Fanti et al. p. 10 |
| 2013 | Oviraptor Longrich et al. p. 41 fig. 14 |
| 2013 | Oviraptor Lü et al. |
| 2014 | Oviraptor Lamanna et al. p. 10 fig. 6 |
| 2015 | Oviraptor Lü et al. |
| 2017 | Oviraptor Tsuihiji et al. p. 10 |
| 2020 | Oviraptor Funston p. 136 fig. 20 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. Barsbold 1981 | Oviraptorids with large curved and laterally compressed unguals of the second and third finger. |