Citipati
Genus of oviraptorid dinosaur
Citipati is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Asia, approximately 75 to 71 million years ago. It is primarily known from the Ukhaa Tolgod locality of the Djadochta Formation, where its remains were first collected during the 1990s. The genus and its type species, Citipati osmolskae were formally named and described in 2001. A second species may be represented by remains from the nearby Zamyn Khondt locality. Citipati is among the best-known oviraptorids, owing to several exceptionally preserved specimens, including individuals found in brooding positions over nests of eggs. Many of these fossils were initially assigned to the closely related genus Oviraptor. These nesting specimens have contributed to the understanding of the evolutionary relationship between non-avian dinosaurs and birds.
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