Nemegtia barsboldi

["Jerry D. Harris" <jharris@dixie.edu>]

Hi All -

   Apparently, the _Apatosaurus_ monograph wasn't the only dinosaur thing 
to come out of Japan late last year:

Lü, J., Tomida, Y., Azuma, Y., Dong, Z., and Lee, Y.-N. 2004. New 
oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Nemegt 
Formation of southwestern Mongolia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum 
of Tokyo Series C (Geology & Paleontology) 30:95-130.

ABSTRACT:
_Nemegtia barsboldi_ gen. et sp. nov. here described is a new oviraptorid 
dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (mid-Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation of 
southwestern Mongolia. It differs from other oviraptorids in the skull 
having a well-developed crest, the anterior margin of which is nearly 
vertical, and the dorsal margin of the skull and the anterior margin of the 
crest form nearly 90°; the nasal process of the premaxilla being less 
exposed on the dorsal surface of the skull than those in other known 
oviraptorids; the length of the frontal being approximately one fourth that 
of the parietal along the midline of the skull. Phylogenetic analysis shows 
that _Nemegtia barsboldi_ is more closely related to _Citipati osmolskae_ 
than to any other oviraptorosaurs.


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