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Another Two-Fingered Dinosaur Reveals Insight into the Radiation of Oviraptorosauria | Abstract
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Another Two-Fingered Dinosaur Reveals Insight into the Radiation of Oviraptorosauria

Author(s): Stuart Feyman

Late Cretaceous patterns in Asian dinosaur variety are ineffectively seen, however late revelations have reported the radiation of oviraptorosaur theropods in China and Mongolia. In any case, little work has tended to the variables that encouraged this enhancement. Another oviraptorid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia reveals insight into the development of the forelimb, which seems to have assumed a part in the radiation of oviraptorosaurs. Shockingly, the decreased arm has just two utilitarian digits, featuring a formerly unrecognized event of digit misfortune in theropods. Phylogenetic investigation shows that the beginning of this decrease matches with the radiation of heyuannine oviraptorids, following dispersal from southern China into the Gobi area. This proposes to venture into another specialty in the Gobi district, which depended less on the extend, getting a handle on forelimbs acquired by oviraptorosaurs. Variety in forelimb length and manus morphology gives another case of specialty apportioning in oviraptorosaurs, which may have made conceivable their mind-boggling variety in the most recent Cretaceous of Asia.