Rinchenia

Rinchen's (named for Rinchen Barsbold)

• Rinchen · Mongolian (personal name) · Rinchen Barsbold, Mongolian palaeontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised genus-name suffix

Rinchenia honours Rinchen Barsbold, the Mongolian palaeontologist who described many of Mongolia's Cretaceous theropods, including the species later placed in this genus. The name was created for the species originally called Oviraptor mongoliensis. It is a feathered, beaked oviraptorid with a tall, rounded crest on its skull.

Named by

Osmólska, Currie and Barsbold

Year named

2004

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

The type species is Rinchenia mongoliensis, originally described by Barsbold in 1986 as Oviraptor mongoliensis. It is an oviraptorid theropod. The exact age within the Nemegt Formation is somewhat debated.