Re: Oviraptor

[LBlosser@aol.com]

What?   You mean Oviraptor is no longer considered to be a small, carnivorous
- er, "egg-consuming" theropod?  This is news to me, an admitted amateur.
 Can someone elaborate?  The last classification I saw was something like:

 Theropoda-Tetanurae-Coelurosauria-Maniraptora-Oviraptorosauria-Oviraptoridae

Does this classification still hold, or is it just the nature of beast itself
which has undergone a bit of adjustment?  Are you saying that "theropod" is
no longer an indication of an animal being a carnivore, or at least an
omnivore?

When incubation was mentioned, I understood that to say the eggs were
possibly Oviraptor eggs.  If so, have there been any further studies on the
eggs or fragments of eggs found with the specimen?  I thought I read where a
specimen of Oviraptor was found "entangled" with a Protoceratops specimen; am
I mistaken?  Was that a different dinosaur?  If not, what is the explanation
of that finding?

Please forgive my amateurish questioning, but this is the first I've heard of
this, and would like to know the current thinking on this.  

Thanks!
Lyle P. Blosser, dinophile