Gobiraptor
Sign in to saveGobiraptor is a genus of oviraptorid maniraptoran dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-aged Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Gobiraptor minutus, known from a single incomplete specimen—the holotype MPC-D 102/111. It has been found not to be closely related to the other oviraptorids it shared its environment with.
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Gobiraptor is a genus of oviraptorid maniraptoran dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-aged Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is Gobiraptor minutus, known from a single incomplete specimen—the holotype MPC-D 102/111. It has been found not to be closely related to the other oviraptorids it shared its environment with.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|Map showing the occurrence of Gobiraptor () and other oviraptorids in the southern Gobi Desert In 2008, the Korea-Mongolia International Dinosaur Expedition discovered an oviraptorosaurian skeleton at the Altan Uul III site in Ömnögovi Province, in the Gobi Desert. The fossil was prepared by Do Kwon Kim.