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CONCHORAPTOR
(conch-o-rap-tor)
meaning: "Conch thief"
Conchoraptor
Named By: Rinchen Barsbold in 1986
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Location: Mongolia - Barun Goyot Formation
Size: Roughly about 2 meters
Diet: Uncertain
Fossil(s): Almost complete skull and partial post cranial skeleton. Now many individuals have been attributed to the genus
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saursichia | Theropoda | Oviraptorosauria | Oviraptoridae | Oviraptorinae |
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Conchoraptor (meaning "conch plunderer") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia.

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