Ravjaa
Sign in to saveRavjaa ishiii is an extinct species of zhelestid mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is the type and only known species of the genus Ravjaa, which was described in 2025 based on a partial mandible recovered from the Bayanshiree Formation in the Gobi Desert.
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Ravjaa ishiii is an extinct species of zhelestid mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is the type and only known species of the genus Ravjaa, which was described in 2025 based on a partial mandible recovered from the Bayanshiree Formation in the Gobi Desert.
== Discovery == The holotype specimen, MPC-M 100s/001, is a partial right dentary with a damaged premolar and three molars. It was recovered in 2019 from fluvial deposits of the Bayanshiree Formation near Bayan Shiree in the Gobi Desert. The fossil was found by a joint expedition of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and Okayama University of Science.
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