Outline: a typical theropod
Gobivenator
"Gobi hunter"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- Mongolia
- Named by
- Tsuihiji et al. 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Gobivenator
What it was like
Gobivenator was a small feathered troodontid, known from one of the most complete skeletons of its family, with a nearly whole skull. It had a narrow snout, large eyes and long legs.
Its skull shows features that link troodontids closely to birds.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia. Its bones come from the Djadokhta Formation, where it shared the land with Velociraptor, Protoceratops, Oviraptor and the small alvarezsaur Mononykus.
How it was found
Tsuihiji and colleagues named Gobivenator in 2014, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: T. Tsuihiji, R. Barsbold, and M. Watanabe, K. Tsogbataar, T. Chinzorig, Y. Fujiyama, S. Suzuki. 2014. An exquisitely preserved troodontid theropod with new information on the palatal structure from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Naturwissenschaften 101:131-142