Gobiraptor

Gobi robber (Gobi thief)

• Gobi · Mongolian · the Gobi Desert (waterless place)
• raptor · Latin · robber, plunderer

The name combines "Gobi", for the Gobi Desert of Mongolia where the fossils were found, with the Latin "raptor", meaning robber or plunderer. It is a common ending for names of small, predatory-looking theropods. The only species, Gobiraptor minutus, has a species name meaning "small" in Latin.

Named by

Lee et al.

Year named

2019

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Nemegt Formation, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Gobiraptor is an oviraptorosaur, a group of beaked, feathered theropod dinosaurs. It is known from a partial skeleton.