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Gobivenator

Gobivenator was a small troodontid with a slender skull and a long tail.

Gobivenator was a small troodontid with a slender skull and a long tail. Its detailed skull anatomy helps document the variety of these lightly built relatives of birds.

Gobivenator at a glance

Diet
Carnivore
Its feeding structures are interpreted as adapted to taking animal prey.
When it lived
Late Cretaceous
Group
Troodontidae
Troodontidae

Beyond the game

The real Gobivenator

Gobivenator was a small troodontid with a slender skull and a long tail. Its detailed skull anatomy helps document the variety of these lightly built relatives of birds.

Its skull preserves details useful for comparing troodontids with other bird-related dinosaurs. Similar lightly built bodies can conceal meaningful differences in the head and skeleton.

Fossil discoveries

Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia · approximate location
Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · M. Saneyoshi, M. Watabe, and T. Tsubamoto, K. Tsogtbaatar, T. Chinzorig, S. Suzuki. 2010. Report of the HMNS-MPC Joint Paleontological Expedition in 2007. Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences Research Bulletin 3:19-28 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

Sources & text credits

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  1. An exquisitely preserved troodontid theropod with new information on the palatal structure from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia

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