Gobiraptor
Field photograph to come
Gobiraptor
DV-1057 · type species Gobiraptor minutus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Oviraptoridae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Lee et al. 2019
Field notes
About Gobiraptor
Gobiraptor was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Oviraptoridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Gobiraptor, from Mongolia. Its fossils come from the Nemegt Formation. It was named by Lee et al. in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Oviraptoridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Lee, Y.-N. Lee, and A. Chinsamy, J. Lü, R. Barsbold, K. Tsogtbaatar. 2019. A new baby oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. PLoS ONE 14:e0210867:1-25