Ojoraptorsaurus

Ojoraptorsaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 69–66 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Superfamily:	†Caenagnathoidea
Family:	†Caenagnathidae
Genus:	†Ojoraptorsaurus Sullivan et al., 2011
Species:	†O. boerei
Binomial name
Ojoraptorsaurus boerei Sullivan et al., 2011

Ojoraptorsaurus is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous. Ojoraptorsaurus is known from the holotype SMP VP-1458, an incomplete pair of fused pubes found at the Naashoibito Member of the Ojo Alamo Formation dating from the early to the late Maastrichtian, about 69 to 66 million years ago. It was first named by Robert M. Sullivan, Steven E. Jasinski and Mark P.A. van Tomme in 2011 and the type species is Ojoraptorsaurus boerei. The generic name combines a reference to the formation with a Latin raptor, "plunderer", and a Latinised Greek saurus, "lizard". The specific name honours oceanographer Arjan Boeré who found the specimen.^[1]

See also

• Timeline of oviraptorosaur research

References