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Monotypic taxon: Genus †Oviraptor Osborn, 1924 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Oviraptorosauria - (Family) Oviraptoridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Caenagnathoidea (Clade) Sereno 1999 Ref: M.P. Martyniuk, 2012: 176 (Sereno, 1999).
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Oviraptoridae (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Oviraptorosauria (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Barsbold 1997] Ref: R. Barsbold, 1997: 508.
Oviraptorosauria (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Barsbold 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Caenagnathidae (Clade) Sternberg 1940 [Sues 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Therizinosauroidea (Clade) Russell & Dong 1993 [Zhang et al. 2001] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 71) (Zhang et al., 2001).

Current position

Oviraptorinae (Subfamily) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: Wikimedia, 2001-present: Oviraptoridae, 18 Oct 2025; Osmólska et al., 2004: table 8.1 (p. [166]).

Alternative positions

Oviraptoridae (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Oviraptoridae (Family) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 118.
Oviraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1981 [Osmólska et al. 2004] Ref: H. Osmólska et al., 2004: table 8.1 (p. [166]).

Historical positions

Oviraptoridae (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Oviraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1981 [Osmólska et al. 2004] Ref: H. Osmólska et al., 2004: table 8.1 (p. [166]).
Oviraptoridae (Family) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 118.
Oviraptoridae (Family) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 126.
Oviraptoridae (Family) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
Oviraptoridae (Family) Barsbold, 1976 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 [; †1s]
2004 H. Osmólska et al. [; †1s]
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