Oksoko Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Holotype block assemblage (top) and line drawing (bottom) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
Subfamily: | †Heyuanninae |
Genus: | †Oksoko Funston et al., 2020 |
Type species | |
†Oksoko avarsan Funston et al., 2020
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Oksoko (Oak-soak-oh; from Öksökö, a mythical bird of Yakut folklore) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Asia, that lived in what is now the Nemegt Formation in Mongolia. It includes the type species Oksoko avarsan.