Corythoraptor
Name:
Corythoraptor
(crested raptor/theif).
Phonetic: Co-re-fo-rap-tor.
Named By: J.-C. Lu, G.-Q. Li, M. Kundrát,
Y.-N. Lee, Z.-Y. Sun, Y. Kobayashi, C.-Z. Shen, F.-F.
Teng & H.-F. Liu - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Oviraptoridae, Oviraptorinae.
Species: C. jacobsi (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: About 1.6 meters long.
Known locations: China, Guangdong Province -
Nanxiong Formation.
Time period: Campanian/Maastrichtian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull, jaw and most of the
post cranial skeleton.
Corythoraptor
is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in China during the late
Cretaceous. Corythoraptor has been described as
having a head crest
similar to that of a modern day cassowary. The beak of Corythoraptor
was also more pointed towards the end, suggesting feeding
specialisation. Corythoraptor is one of many
oviraptorid dinosaurs
discovered within the Nanxiong Formation, and a feeding
specialisation may have allowed Corythoraptor to
coexist with other
similar dinosaurs because they were not competing for the same food
sources. A possible close relative of Corythoraptor
is Huanansaurus.
Further reading
- High diversity of the Ganzhou Oviraptorid Fauna increased by a new
“cassowary-like” crested species. - Scientific Reports
7(6393). - J.-C. Lu, G.-Q. Li, M. Kundrát, Y.-N.
Lee, Z.-Y. Sun, Y. Kobayashi, C.-Z. Shen, F.-F. Teng
& H.-F. Liu - 2017.
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