Re: Oviraptor mongoliensis

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Øyvind Padron (padron@stud.ntnu.no) wrote:

<Does anyone out there have any pictures of postcranial elements from this
species? I know there are at least limbs and pelvis reffered to it, but I
can't find anything at all on the open net.>

  As far as known, the skull, pelvis, and the rest of a "partial
postcranial skeleton" (Barsbold, 1981, 1983, 1986) is known, but only the
skull and pelvis have ever been figured. Only in the Clark et al., 2002,
study on the cranial anatomy of *Citipati* has the skull been
photographed, but beyond this the remains are undisclosed _at present_.
More work on the anatomy and relationships of *Oviraptor philoceratops*
and thus *O. mongoliensis* is in prep. Holtz axiom #1, I'm afraid.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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