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The name suggests than they stole eggs, but it turns on this was given in error; a suspicious circumstance was misinterpreted and a mother dinosaur was actually guarding her own eggs. (The genus should be renamed Ovigregor.)

Best guess would be lizards, carrion, early mammals, some of the larger insects.

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