the discovery of the Gigantoraptor holotype fossil was documented on film. In 2007, the type species Gigantoraptor erlianensis was named and described...
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is a much larger animal, considerably larger than a human. If Gigantoraptor erlianensis is a caenagnathid, then it would represent far and away the largest...
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Caudipteryx, which was the size of a turkey, to the 8-meter-long, 1.4-ton Gigantoraptor. The group (along with all maniraptoran dinosaurs) is close to the ancestry...
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clade Oviraptorosauria (Barsbold, 1976), apart from the later described Gigantoraptor. H. giganteus was estimated to have been 30-40% larger than the next...
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artificial. Other possible oviraptorids include Nomingia gobiensis, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, Jiangxisaurus ganzhouensis and Shixinggia oblita. All four have...
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(1.7–2.2 short tons), based on comparisons with the closely related Gigantoraptor. Its jaws—in a similar fashion to most other oviraptorosaurs—were toothless...
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found Yulong to be more derived than the gigantic oviraptorid Gigantoraptor erlianensis, and less derived than (as a sister taxon to) the clade formed...
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oblita. 2007 Xu and others described the new genus and species Gigantoraptor erlianensis. 2008 T. He, X.-L. Wang, and Z.-H. Zhou described the new genus...
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Bostobe and Bissekty. In addition, a giant caenagnathid similar to Gigantoraptor is now known from the Bayan Shireh Formation at the locality of Tsagan...
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et al. (2017). A description of the anatomy of the mandible of Gigantoraptor erlianensis is published by Ma et al. (2017). Wiemann et al. (2017) report...
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