Re: Pygostyles in Oviraptorosauria

[Brian Choo <bchoo@cyllene.uwa.edu.au>]

Erm...are you sure shes not asking about Nomingia gobiensis?

Barsbold, R., Osmólska, H., Watabe, M., Currie, P.J., & Tsogtbaatar, K -. A
new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia: The first
dinosaur with a pygostyle, Journal Acta Paleontologica Polonica pp. 97-106.

Just about everything to say about this neat little guy has already been
stated
previously on the list...to read the abstract and see photos of the actual
specimens, check out:

http://www.paleo.pan.pl/acta/45-2-97.htm

Cheerio
Brian

>Oviraptor mongoliensis (RINCHENIA) is found in Altan-Uul, Nemegt Formation,
>Omnogov, Mongolia. Oviraptor mongoliensis differs from Oviraptor in having a
>higher, dome-like crest and being more
>lightly built. Rinchenia ((Barsbold,1986 vide Barsbold 1997)) > R.
>mongoliensis (Barsbold,1986 vide Barsbold 1997) >> Oviraptor mongoliensis
>(Barsbold,1986.
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>Steve
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>>From: "Stacey ..." <pheonix2000@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: pheonix2000@hotmail.com
>>To: dinosaur@usc.edu
>>Subject: Pygostyles in Oviraptorosauria
>>Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:05:33 -0400
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>I remember briefly reading that an Oviraptor specimen has been found with
>a pygostyle; would any one know the full species name of this animal, how
>complete the fossil was and its geographic location?
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