However, Dromaeosaurid classification is highly variable.
as well as the oviraptorid Machairasaurus leptonychus and the Dromaeosaurid Linheraptor exquisitus.
The"raptors" portrayed in Jurassic Park were actually modeled after the closely related Dromaeosaurid Deinonychus.
Osmolskae lived alongside the ceratopsian species Magnirostris dodsoni,
as well as the oviraptorid Machairasaurus leptonychus and the Dromaeosaurid Linheraptor exquisitus.
In the past, other Dromaeosaurid species, including Deinonychus antirrhopus and Saurornitholestes langstoni, have sometimes been classified in the genus Velociraptor.
Velociraptor was a mid-sized Dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 2.07 m(6.8 ft)
long, 0.5 m(1.6 ft) high at the hip, and weighing up to 15 kg(33 lb),
Velociraptor(/vɪˈlɒsɪræptər/; meaning"swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of Dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75
to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period.