Outline: a typical theropod
Nemegtomaia
"Nemegt mother"
Type species Nemegtomaia barsboldi
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Lü et al. 2005
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Nemegtomaia
What it was like
Nemegtomaia was an oviraptorid, a toothless, feathered theropod with a short, deep beak and a crest on its head. One skeleton was found lying on a nest of eggs, with its arms spread over them, much like a brooding bird.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Nemegt and Baruungoyot formations. It shared the land with the huge predator Tarbosaurus, the long-clawed Therizinosaurus and the armored Tarchia.
How it was found
Lü and colleagues named it in 2005. Its first name was already taken, so it was changed to Nemegtomaia. The type species is Nemegtomaia barsboldi.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. Lü, Y. Tomida, and Y. Azuma, Z. Dong, Y.-N. Lee. 2005. Nemegtomaia gen. nov., a replacement name for the oviraptorosaurian dinosaur Nemegtia Lü et al., 2004, a preoccupied name. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 31:51