Late Cretaceous Period, 88-71 million years BP. A fossil Oviraptor philocerataops egg; from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 945 grams, 18.5cm (7 1/4"). Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher; formerly from a Devon, UK, collection; previously in the collection of a Chinese gentleman since the 1970s. Oviraptor, or 'egg thief', was a small feathered bipedal therapod. Being omnivorous, it fed on plants, insects, eggs and fish. Famously mis-named upon its initial discovery in association with a nest of eggs in 1924, it is now accepted that the oviraptor was nesting, not raiding; palaeontologists have since discovered oviraptor in association with eggs containing fossil oviraptor embryos. Condition Report Fine condition.