Named By: | Takanobu Tsuihiji, Rinchen Barsbold, Mahito Watabe, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Yoshito Fujiyama & Shigeru Suzuki in 2014 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous, 72 Ma |
Location: | Mongolia, Djadochta Formation |
Size: | 160 centimetres long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Almost complete individual lacking only rear limbs, lower fore limbs, some central vertebrae and the tip of the snout |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Troodontidae | |
Gobivenator is an extinct genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur known from the late Campanian Djadokhta Formation of central Gobi Desert, Mongolia. It contains a single species, Gobivenator mongoliensis. G. mongoliensis is known from a single individual, which represents the most complete specimen of a Late Cretaceous troodontid currently known.