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Gigantoraptor, the Glossary

Gigantoraptor is a genus of large oviraptorosaur dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.^[1]

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Caenagnathids
Turonian genera

Albertosaurus

Albertosaurus (meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of large tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in northwestern North America during the early to middle Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 71 million years ago.

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Alectrosaurus

Alectrosaurus (meaning "alone lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about some 96 million years ago in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation. Gigantoraptor and Alectrosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Angular bone

The angular is a large bone in the lower jaw (mandible) of amphibians and reptiles (birds included), which is connected to all other lower jaw bones: the dentary (which is the entire lower jaw in mammals), the splenial, the suprangular, and the articular.

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Anzu wyliei

Anzu (named for Anzû, a bird-like daemon in Ancient Mesopotamian religion) is a monospecific genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana that lived during the Late Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian stage, 67.2-66.0 Ma) in what is now the Hell Creek Formation. Gigantoraptor and Anzu wyliei are caenagnathids.

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Apatoraptor

Apatoraptor (meaning "deceptive thief") is a genus of caenagnathid dinosaur which contains a single species, A. pennatus. Gigantoraptor and Apatoraptor are caenagnathids.

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Archaeornithomimus

Archaeornithomimus (meaning "ancient bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, around 96 million years ago in the Iren Dabasu Formation. Gigantoraptor and Archaeornithomimus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Articular bone

The articular bone is part of the lower jaw of most vertebrates, including most jawed fish, amphibians, birds and various kinds of reptiles, as well as ancestral mammals.

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Articular process

The articular process or zygapophysis (+ apophysis) of a vertebra is a projection of the vertebra that serves the purpose of fitting with an adjacent vertebra.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Bactrosaurus

Bactrosaurus (meaning "Club lizard," "baktron". Gigantoraptor and Bactrosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Bayan Shireh Formation

The Bayan Shireh Formation (also known as Baynshiree/Baynshire, Baynshirenskaya Svita or Baysheen Shireh) is a geological formation in Mongolia, that dates to the Cretaceous period.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Beibeilong

Beibeilong (Chinese) is a genus of large caenagnathid dinosaurs that lived in China during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 96 million to 88 million years ago. Gigantoraptor and Beibeilong are caenagnathids and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Bipedalism

Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an animal moves by means of its two rear (or lower) limbs or legs.

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Bissekty Formation

The Bissekty Formation (sometimes referred to as Bissekt) is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte which crops out in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan, and dates to the Late Cretaceous Period.

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Blood vessel

Blood vessels are the structures of the circulatory system that transport blood throughout the human body.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.

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Broodiness

Broodiness is the action or behavioral tendency to sit on a clutch of eggs to incubate them, often requiring the non-expression of many other behaviors including feeding and drinking.

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Caenagnathasia

Caenagnathasia ('recent jaw from Asia') is a small caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Gigantoraptor and Caenagnathasia are caenagnathids and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Caenagnathidae

Caenagnathidae is a family of derived caenagnathoid dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of North America and Asia. Gigantoraptor and Caenagnathidae are caenagnathids.

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Caenagnathus

Caenagnathus ('recent jaw') is a genus of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage; ~75 million years ago). Gigantoraptor and Caenagnathus are caenagnathids.

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Caliche

Caliche - (unrelated to the street-slang "Caliche" spoken in El Salvador) - is a sedimentary rock, a hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.

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Campanian

The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Carnivore

A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.

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Caudipteryx

Caudipteryx (meaning "tail feather") is a genus of small oviraptorosaur dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Early Cretaceous, around 124.6 million years ago. Gigantoraptor and Caudipteryx are feathered dinosaurs.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Cervical vertebrae

In tetrapods, cervical vertebrae (vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.

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Cf.

The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare') is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.

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Charophyta

Charophyta is a group of freshwater green algae, called charophytes, sometimes treated as a division, yet also as a superdivision or an unranked clade.

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Chirostenotes

Chirostenotes (named from Greek 'narrow-handed') is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 76.5 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. Gigantoraptor and Chirostenotes are caenagnathids.

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Citipati

Citipati (meaning "funeral pyre lord") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. Gigantoraptor and Citipati are feathered dinosaurs and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Clutch (eggs)

A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.

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Coronoid process of the mandible

In human anatomy, the mandible's coronoid process (from Greek korōnē, denoting something hooked) is a thin, triangular eminence, which is flattened from side to side and varies in shape and size.

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Cursorial

A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run.

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Deserts and xeric shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Display (zoology)

Display behaviour is a set of ritualized behaviours that enable an animal to communicate to other animals (typically of the same species) about specific stimuli.

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Durophagy

Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton-bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Egg fossil

Egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals.

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Egg incubation

Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.

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Elmisaurus

Elmisaurus (meaning "foot sole lizard") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Gigantoraptor and Elmisaurus are caenagnathids and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Epichirostenotes

Epichirostenotes (meaning "above Chirostenotes", because it lived after the latter genus) is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous. Gigantoraptor and Epichirostenotes are caenagnathids.

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Erenhot

Erenhot (style Эрээн хот;, commonly shortened to Ereen or Erlian) is a county-level city under jurisdiction of the Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, located in the Gobi Desert along the Sino-Mongolian border, across from the Mongolian town of Zamyn-Üüd.

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Erliansaurus

Erliansaurus (meaning "Erlian lizard") is a genus of therizinosaur theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Nei Mongol, Iren Dabasu Formation. Gigantoraptor and Erliansaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and taxa named by Xu Xing.

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Euoplocephalus

Euoplocephalus is a genus of large herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaurs, living during the Late Cretaceous of Canada.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Fenestra

A fenestra (fenestration;: fenestrae or fenestrations) is any small opening or pore, commonly used as a term in the biological sciences.

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Fibula

The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Foramen

In anatomy and osteology, a foramen (foramina, or foramens) is an opening or enclosed gap within the dense connective tissue (bones and deep fasciae) of extant and extinct amniote animals, typically to allow passage of nerves, arteries, veins or other soft tissue structures (e.g. muscle tendon) from one body compartment to another.

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Fourth trochanter

The fourth trochanter is a shared characteristic common to archosaurs.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.

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Generalist and specialist species

A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet).

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Giant

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance.

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Gilmoreosaurus

Gilmoreosaurus (meaning "Charles Whitney Gilmore's lizard") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Asia. Gigantoraptor and Gilmoreosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Growth arrest lines

Growth arrest lines, also known as Harris lines, are lines of increased bone density that represent the position of the growth plate at the time of insult to the organism and formed on long bones due to growth arrest.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Hadrosauroidea

Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or hadrosauridae, and all dinosaurs more closely related to them than to Iguanodon.

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Hagryphus

Hagryphus (meaning "Ha's griffin") is a monospecific genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from southern Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous (upper Campanian stage, 75.95 Ma) in what is now the Kaiparowits Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. Gigantoraptor and Hagryphus are caenagnathids.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Histology

Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Ilium (bone)

The ilium (ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish.

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Ingestion

Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism.

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.

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Iren Dabasu Formation

The Iren Dabasu Formation (also known as Erlian Formation) is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in the Iren Nor region of Inner Mongolia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Julius T. Csotonyi

Julius Thomas Csotonyi (born October 11, 1973) is a Hungarian-born Canadian paleoartist and natural history illustrator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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Leptorhynchos gaddisi

Leptorhynchos is an extinct genus of caenagnathid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of what is now the US state of Texas, although it has been suggested to also exist in Alberta and South Dakota. Gigantoraptor and Leptorhynchos gaddisi are caenagnathids.

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Lumbar vertebrae

The lumbar vertebrae are located between the thoracic vertebrae and pelvis.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem.

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Macroelongatoolithus is an oogenus of large theropod dinosaur eggs, representing the eggs of giant caenagnathid oviraptorosaurs.

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Mandible

In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla).

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Manus (anatomy)

The manus (Latin for hand, plural manus) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the forelimb of an animal.

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Meat

Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food.

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Megafauna

In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.

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Mesic habitat

In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a well-balanced or moderate supply of moisture throughout the growing season (e.g., a mesic forest, temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie).

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In human anatomy, the metacarpal bones or metacarpus, also known as the "palm bones", are the appendicular bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the phalanges (fingers) and the carpal bones (wrist bones), which articulate with the forearm.

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The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes).

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Microvenator

Microvenator (meaning "small hunter") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation in what is now south central Montana. Gigantoraptor and Microvenator are caenagnathids.

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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Neimongosaurus

Neimongosaurus (meaning "Nei Mongol lizard") is a genus of herbivorous therizinosaur theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation. Gigantoraptor and Neimongosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Nest

A nest is a structure built for certain animals to hold eggs or young.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.

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Ornithomimosauria

Ornithomimosauria ("bird-mimic lizards") are theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to the modern-day ostrich.

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Osteon

In osteology, the osteon or haversian system (named for Clopton Havers) is the fundamental functional unit of much compact bone.

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Ostracod

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.

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Oviraptoridae

Oviraptoridae is a group of bird-like, herbivorous and omnivorous maniraptoran dinosaurs.

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Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

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Paleosol

In geoscience, paleosol (palaeosol in Great Britain and Australia) is an ancient soil that formed in the past.

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Paraves

Paraves are a widespread group of theropod dinosaurs that originated in the Middle Jurassic period.

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Pes (anatomy)

The pes (Latin for foot) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the hind limb of tetrapod animals.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Process (anatomy)

In anatomy, a process (processus) is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body.

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Pygostyle

Pygostyle describes a skeletal condition in which the final few caudal vertebrae are fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Rostrum (anatomy)

Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Scapula

The scapula (scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone).

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

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Sonid Left Banner (Mongolian) is a banner of north-central Inner Mongolia, China, bordering the Mongolian provinces of Dornogovi to the west and Sükhbaatar to the north.

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Sonidosaurus

Sonidosaurus (meaning "Sonid lizard", after Sonid, the large geographical area that includes the type locality) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Gigantoraptor and Sonidosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and taxa named by Xu Xing.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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Surangular

The surangular or suprangular is a jaw bone found in most land vertebrates, except mammals.

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Symphysis

A symphysis (symphyses) is a fibrocartilaginous fusion between two bones.

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Tan Lin

Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor.

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Therizinosauridae

Therizinosauridae (meaning 'scythe lizards').

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Thermoregulation

Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.

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Thoracic vertebrae

In vertebrates, thoracic vertebrae compose the middle segment of the vertebral column, between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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Timeline of oviraptorosaur research

This timeline of oviraptorosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the oviraptorosaurs, a group of beaked, bird-like theropod dinosaurs.

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Tongue

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod.

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Toothlessness

Toothlessness or edentulism is the condition of having no teeth.

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Tuatara

The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand.

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Turonian

The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous Epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantoraptor

Also known as Gigantoraptor erlianensis.

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Gigantoraptor, the Glossary

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Caenagnathids

Turonian genera

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