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Clade
Subclade

Taxon
Taxon
Oviraptorinae
Nominal Author
Barsbold 1976b
2nd Nominal Author
Taxon Status ACTIVE
Comments
This subfamily was formally recognized by Barsbold (1976b), who argued for a subdivision of the family Oviraptoridae into two subfamilies (Oviraptorinae, Ingeniinae).  His other paper in that year (Barsbold 1976a) cited Barsbold (1976b) as the original source for the family-group taxa, Oviraptoridae and Oviraptorinae (also the nominal author for Oviraptoroidea).  Several publications do not differentiate between these family-group taxa named by Barsbold (1976b) and Oviraptorosauria named by (Barsbold 1976a), listing only the latter as author for both (e.g. Clark et al. 1999, 2001; Lü 2002).  Osmólska et al. (2004:tab. 8.1) doubtless were aware of the difference in the original auhorship of these taxa, but inverted their citation (incorrect citations of nominal when there is more than one publication in the same year are fairly commonplace in Weishampel et al. 2004).

Osmólska et al. (2004) were the first to define this taxon, which in their analysis includes Citipati, Rinchenia, and an unnamed form.
The active definition is a textual variant of the node-based definition in Osmólska et al. (2004). They remarked that the taxon divides Oviraptoridae into its two subdivisions (along with Ingeniinae).  It may have been better, if the intention was to maintain that subdivision, to have erected stem-based defintions for each of the subfamilies based on their most derived species.  However, this revision will not be implemented here in order to maintain use of the original definitions.
Potential Synonomy

Active Phylogenetic Definition
Active Definition
The least inclusive clade containing Oviraptor philoceratops Osborn 1924 and Citipati osmolskae Clark et al. 2001.
Shorthand
< Oviraptor philoceratops and Citipati osmolskae.
Definitional Author
Osmólska et al. 2004
Definition Status TEXTUAL SUBSTITUTION
Definition Type NODE
Node-Stem Triplet NO
Other Triplet Taxa
Specifiers
Specifier(s) A
Oviraptor philoceratops
Specifier(s) B
Citipati osmolskae
Specifier(s) C
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Datum
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Publication Year Unknown
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2004

Inactive Taxon Status
Rejection Criteria
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Oviraptor philoceratops, Citipati osmolskae, their most recent common ancestor, and all descendants.
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