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From: Marco Auditore
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Oviraptor classification
The only valid specimen assigned to Oviraptor philoceratops is the holotype AMNH 6517. The animal normally illustrated as Oviraptor (IGM 100/42) is now assigned to the genus Citipati (probably a new species of this genus). Even the most famous brooding oviraptorid, Big Mom (IGM 100/979), is assigned to Citipati for the similarity of the maxilla to that of the holotype of this species (IGM 100/978). I completely agree with Marco Auditore
for the assignment of O. philoceratops (AMNH 6517), IGM 100/42, but if I
remember correctly the material of IGM 100/979 (Big-Mom) do not include cranial
fragments.
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