Gobiraptor
Name:
Gobiraptor
(Gobi thief).
Phonetic: Go-be-rap-tor.
Named By: Sungjin Lee, Yuong-Nam Lee, Anusuya
Chinsamy, Junchang Lü, Rinchen Barsbold & Khishigjav
Tsogtbaatar - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Oviraptoridae.
Species: G. minutus (type).
Diet: Unknown.
Size: Holotype roughly estimated to be about 1.3
meters long.
Known locations: Mongolia - Nemegt Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and lower jaw.
Partial post cranial skeleton including pelvis, caudal (tail
vertebra), femur (thigh), foot bones, partial scapula
(shoulder) and partial humerus (upper arm bone).
Gobiraptor
is a genus of oviraptorid
dinosaur that lived in Mongolia towards the
end of the Late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new baby oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from
the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. - PLOS ONE.
14 (2). - Sungjin Lee, Yuong-Nam Lee, Anusuya Chinsamy,
Junchang Lü, Rinchen Barsbold & Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar
- 2019.
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