Shri
Name: Shri
(named after a Buddhist deity).
Phonetic: Shre.
Named By: Alan H. Turner, Shaena Montanari
& Mark A. Norell - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Dromaeosauridae, Velociraptorinae.
Species: S. devi (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Ilium up to 183.8 millimetres. Pubis
192 millimetres. Ischium116.8 millimetres. Femur - 205
millimetres. Tibiotarsus - 246 millimetres. Total body
length unknown.
Known locations: Mongolia - Barun Goyot
Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partially articulated
partial post cranial skeleton, including limb bones, pelvis,
cervical (neck), dorsal (back), sacral (hip) and
caudal (tail) vertebrae.
Shri
is a genus of dromaeosaurid
dinosaur that lived in Asia during the late
Cretaceous. The holotype specimen of Shri was
originally thought to
belong to the Velociraptor
genus, but later study has revealed that
the fourth trochanter (a bulbous bone growth near the hip joint of
the femur that served as a point of muscle attachment) is more weakly
developed that those seen in other specimens of Velociraptor.
With
this observation leading to other differences in various bones being
identified, the fossils were renamed as their own genus in 2021.
Shri
is thought to represent a velociraptorine dromaeosaur, meaning that
while distinct from Velociraptor on a genus
level, Shri would have
still at a glance had a similar build and body shape. Shri
would have
been a lightly built predatory dinosaur, relying upon speed and
agility survival.
Further reading
- A New Dromaeosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Khulsan Locality of
Mongolia. - American Museum Novitates. 2020 (3965):
1–48. - Alan H. Turner, Shaena Montanari & Mark
A. Norell - 2021.
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