The Oviraptor was a small carnivorous, or meat-eating, dinosaur that inhabited Asia during the late Cretaceous period, about 65 to 98 million years ago. Oviraptor is classified as a member of the family Oviraptoridae, a small family of toothless dinosaurs. The Oviraptoridae belong to the order Saurischia (the lizard-hipped dinosaurs), which is divided into two suborders: the four-legged, herbivorous, or plant-eating, Sauropoda and the two-legged, carnivorous Theropoda, which includes the Oviraptoridae.