Description

“Ingenia” yanshini
Late Cretaceous
Beautiful, perfect left and right pair of 44mm “thumb” phalanges including the semi-lunate carpal, a distinctive feature of all predatory theropods.

Oviraptor was an emu-sized animal and, at about 3 meters (10 ft) long, were the largest known oviraptorids until Gigantoraptor was described in 2007.
Oviraptorids had an unusually long neck and shortened tail, compared to most other theropods. Its skull was unusually short and highly pneumatized (riddled with openings in the bone structure), ending in a stout, toothless beak.