This specimen is considered a national treasure of Mongolia, and in 2000 it was loaned to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for a temporary exhibition.
This fossil preserves a Velociraptor in battle against a Protoceratops. The most famous is part of the famous " Fighting Dinosaurs" specimen ( GIN 100/25), discovered by a Polish-Mongolian team in 1971. While North American teams were shut out of communist Mongolia during the Cold War, expeditions by Soviet and Polish scientists, in collaboration with Mongolian colleagues, recovered several more specimens of Velociraptor.
However, because the name "Ovoraptor" was not published in a scientific journal or accompanied by a formal description, it is considered a nomen nudum ('naked name'), and the name Velociraptor retains priority. Earlier that year, Osborn had mentioned the animal in a popular press article, under the name "Ovoraptor djadochtari" (not to be confused with the similarly named Oviraptor). mongoliensis after its country of origin. This name is derived from the Latin words velox ('swift') and raptor ('robber' or 'plunderer') and refers to the animal's cursorial nature and carnivorous diet. In 1924, museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn designated the skull and claw (which he assumed to come from the hand) as the type specimen of his new genus, Velociraptor. mongoliensis on display at the American Museum of Natural Historyĭuring an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Outer Mongolian Gobi Desert, on 11 August 1923 Peter Kaisen recovered the first Velociraptor fossil known to science: a crushed but complete skull, associated with one of the raptorial second toe claws ( AMNH 6515). One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops. Today, Velociraptor is well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons, the most of any dromaeosaurid. In real life, however, Velociraptor was roughly the size of a turkey, considerably smaller than the approximately 2 m ( 6 + 1⁄ 2 ft) tall and 80 kg (180 lb) reptiles seen in the films (which were based on members of the related genus Deinonychus). Velociraptor (commonly shortened to " raptor") is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle and tear into prey. Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia, China. mongoliensis fossils of this species have been discovered in Mongolia. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. Velociraptor ( / v ɪ ˈ l ɒ s ɪ r æ p t ər/ meaning "swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period.
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