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GOBIVENATOR
(go-bee-ven-ah-tore)
meaning: "Gobi hunter"
Gobivenator
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 |
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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.

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