Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924

Remarks

• Collection:   Robert Sheridan (sculpture work by Steve Hoeger)

• Formation:  none (replica)

• Location:     none (replica)

General Info

Synonyms (a few reports from the literature)

• Translation:  "Swift Robber"

• 1924 Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn

• 1953 cf. Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn; Bohlin

• 1977 V. mongoliensis; Gradzinski, Kielan-Jaworowska & Maryańska

• 1977 Velociraptor sp.; Gradzinski, Kielan-Jaworowska &  Maryańska

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Djadochta Formation of the Mongolian People's Republic

• Barum Goyot Formation of the Mongolian People's Republic

• Beds of Toogreeg of the Mongolian People's Republic

• Red Beds of Khermeen Tsav of the Mongolian People's Republic

• Minhe Formation of the People's Republic of China

Age

• The type specimen, Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn lived during latest Santonian-earliest Campanian time.

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Mongolia

• Northern China

Remarks

       For more information, see:

• Carroll, R. L.  1988.  Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.  New York:  W. H. Freeman and Company.

• Lessem, D.; Glut, D. F.  1993.  Dinosaur Encyclopedia.  New York:  Random House.

• Weishampel, D. B.; Dodson, P.; Osmólska, H., eds.  1990.  The Dinosauria.  Berkeley:  University of California Press (several chapters).