What is Oviraptoridae?
Oviraptoridae is a family of toothless, beaked theropods from the Late Cretaceous of Asia. Many members have bony crests on the head, strong jaws and feathered arms, and some are known from nests that preserve adults on top of egg clutches.
The diet of oviraptorids is not settled. Beak shape fits a variety of foods, so claims about what they ate should be treated as hypotheses.
How this group is defined here
Members are the 4 field notes whose family or immediate parent group in the Paleobiology Database catalogue is Oviraptoridae. The interpreted diet field across the group is omnivore, based on skeletal features rather than direct observation. Groups are revised when new fossils are described, and some genera are placed here with less certainty than others, so each field note records its sources and limits.
