Nemegtomaia

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Nemegtomaia
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Profile of Nemegtomaia barsboldi.

Conservation status

Extinct (fossil)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Infraorder:	Oviraptorosauria
Family:	Oviraptoridae
Genus:	Nemegtomaia Lü et al., 2005
Species:	N. barsboldi

Binomial name

Nemegtomaia barsboldi
(Lü et al., 2004)

Synonyms

Nemegtia barsboldi Lü et al., 2005

Nemegtomaia ("Nemegt mother") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. The type species, Nemegtomaia barsboldi, was described by Lü, Tomida, Azuma, Dong, and Lee in 2004. Lü et al. originally named the dinosaur Nemegtia, which was preoccupied by an ostracod from the same formation (in the Nemegt Basin). The dinosaur was therefore renamed Nemegtomaia in 2005.

Nemegtomaia is known from relatively good remains and a notably well-preserved skull. The same authors had identified this skull in 2002, as a species of Ingenia (Lü et al., 2002). Despite this early misidentification, Nemegtomaia beongs to the subfamily Oviraptorinae, not Ingeniinae and may be a close relative of Citipati.

[edit] References

Lü, J., Dong, Z., Azuma, Y., Barsbold, R. & Tomida, Y. (2002). "Oviraptorosaurs compared to birds." In Zhou, Z. & Zhang, F. (eds). Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Science Press (Beijing), pp. 175-189.
Lü, J., Tomida, Y., Azuma, Y., Dong, Z. & Lee, Y.-N. (2004). "New oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Nemegt Formation of southwestern Mongolia." Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 30, 95-130.
Lü, J., Tomida, Y., Azuma, Y., Dong, Z. & Lee, Y.-N. (2005). "Nemegtomaia gen. nov., a replacement name for the oviraptorosaurian dinosaur Nemegtia Lü et al., 2004, a preoccupied name." Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 31, 51.