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Gigantoraptor and Oviraptor

by

Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

Reference

t-din03-34003

Date

2010-04-27

Gigantoraptor erlianensis was a giant oviraptorosaurian dinosaur that lived 85 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. Found from northern Chinas and Inner Mongolia. It was nearly 8 meters long and weighed about 1.4 tonnes. Oviraptor philoceratops was a small theropod dinosaur living in the late cretaceous period.