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Oviraptor Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Oviraptor philoceratops
- Age
- Cretaceous, about 77.9 million years ago
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Length
- 1.8 m
- Height
- 1.2 m
- Group
- Oviraptor relatives
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (188 of 211) are borrowed from close relatives and fitted to this species' size and body proportions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 23 are estimated.
From this species 0Borrowed from relatives 188Estimated 23
Bones known from fossils
105 of 211 bones are known from fossils. 106 are missing and filled in.
Known 105Filled in 106No record 0
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D Skeleton: Borrowed bone shapes from the template 'Anzu' (T11). Since there are no direct measurements of body part lengths for this species, the size was determined from a 303 mm femur listed in Christiansen 1999 from the PBDB (Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0; specimen (unrecorded)), keeping the proportions of other body parts from the template. The shapes of individual bones are not from this species, but from the template species. Ornaments unique to the template species (head crest) were removed. Template skeleton source: 3D Skeleton: Created on this site. Bone shapes were traced from outlines of bone photos in Lamanna et al. 2014 PLOS ONE (Public domain CC0; 3 specimens: CM 78000, CM 78001, MRF 319), scaled to the measurement tables in the supplementary material (femur 525 mm, tibia 660 mm). The skull and lower jaw are from the line drawing in Figure 2A 'Reconstructed skull' of the same paper. Bones without photos (ilium, metatarsals, toe bones, etc.) had their shapes estimated. Pose (2026-09-30): Bone orientations were read pixel-by-pixel directly from Figure 1H of Pacheco et al. 2019 PeerJ (CC BY; full skeletal reconstruction of Gnathovorax walking) (front leg: thigh 50 degrees forward, shin 46 degrees back, instep 24 degrees forward; back leg: thigh 12 degrees back, shin 67 degrees back, instep 16 degrees forward; arm: upper arm 40 degrees back, forearm 66 degrees forward). Because the figure only depicts one arm, the far arm was swung slightly forward (estimated). The soles of both feet were aligned to the ground by adjusting the angle of the back leg's shin (and instep if needed). The sideways turn of the neck and sideways curve of the tail are estimated (the figure is side view only). Rather than a walking diagram of this species itself, bone orientations from a relative with a similar gait were applied. The neck was turned slightly to the side, and the tail curved sideways (the degree of turn is estimated; the figure shows only a side view).
- Known bones: Per-species bone table from Cashmore, Butler & Maidment (2021) (Zenodo 5029952, CC0). Because vertebrae are recorded as "at least one found" per section (neck, back, hips, and tail), bones within each section share the same color.
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