Rinchenia Rinchenia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rinchenia 1.7 m (5.6 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.7 m (5.6 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Mongolia
- Food
- Omnivore
- Clade
- Oviraptoridae
Rinchenia (named after Byambyn Rinchen) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, Nemegt Formation. The type and only known species, Rinchenia mongoliensis, was originally classified as a species within the genus Oviraptor (named Oviraptor mongoliensis), but a subsequent reexamination found differences significant enough to warrant a separate genus. The name Rinchenia was coined for this new genus, though not formally described in detail.
What we know
- Named by Barsbold, 1997.
- Body length estimated at about 1.7 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and Mongolia.