Corythoraptor
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Corythoraptor is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Nanxiong Formation of South China. It contains one species, C. jacobsi, known from a single well-preserved skeleton, and na
Skull reconstruction (left) and head restoration (right)
Holotype block
Comparison between the casque of Corythoraptor and the southern and northern cassowaries
Banji
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Banji is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now China. It was a small, lightly built, grou
Corythoraptor
…inhabited South China): The validity of Corythoraptor was called into question by Cau (2024), who considered it to be a junior synonym of the contemporary Banji due to them both sharing unique characteristics of the skull. He further explained that the proposed diagnosis distinguishing the taxa was based on…
Restoration of the head