Ojoraptorsaurus
Ojoraptorsaurus is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous. Ojoraptorsaurus is only known from pubic bones found at the Naashoibito Member of the Ojo Alamo Formation dating to the early Maastrichtian, about 69 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.
| Ojoraptorsaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Silhouette showing the pubis bones | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Caenagnathoidea |
| Family: | †Caenagnathidae |
| Genus: | †Ojoraptorsaurus Sullivan et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †O. boerei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ojoraptorsaurus boerei Sullivan et al., 2011 | |
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