Species: minuta ELZANOWSKI, 1976
Etymology: Latin, minuta, "small."

Holotype: Z. Pal. No. MgR-1/12

Locality: Khulsan, Nemegt basin, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Barun Goyot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle –Late Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Incomplete skull, so strongly compressed dorsoventrally that the basicranial and palatal fragments are superposed on the skull roof. The specimen in considerably cracked, missing temporal and occipital region. Quadrate and mandible are the best preserved parts.

Referred material:

Z. Pal. No. MgR-I/32: Anterior 2/3rds only and somewhat compressed laterally.

 

Locality: Hermiin Tsav I (Khermeen Tsav I), western Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Red beds of Khermeen Tsav.

Biostratigraphy:

Age:?Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ZPAL MgR-I/33: Calvarium, left mandible, 8 cervicals, 6 dorsals vertebrae, 3 left and 1 right rib, left and right scapulae, right coracoid, left and right humeri, left radius, left ulna, left metacarpals II and III, left femur, left tibia, phalanges of the toes.

ZPAL MgR-I/34: Calvarium, left mandible, 10+3 cervicals, 1+1 dorsal vertebra, 3 left and 2 right ribs, left and right scapulae, left and right coracoid, left clavicle, right and left humeri, left radius, left ulna, left and right metacarpals II and III, phalanges of the pollex 2 left and 1 right.

ZPAL MgR-I/88: Calvarium, left and right mandible, and phalanges of the toes.

ZPAL MgR-I/89: 3 dorsal vertebrae, left humerus, left radius, left ulna, left metacarpal II and III.

ZPAL MgR-I/90: Left tibia.

ZPAL MgR-I/91: Calvarium, left humerus, left radius, left radius, and metacarpals II and III.

ZPAL MgR-I/92: Left Coracoid? left humerus, and metacarpals II and III?

 

CHIAPPE, NORELL & CLARK, 2001

Locality: Ukhaa Tolgod, near the salt extraction settlement of Daus, northeastern Nemegt Basin, Gurvan Tes Somon, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Djadokhta Formation or the Barun Goyot Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

IGM-100/1011: Fragmentary skull and dentary.

 

ELZANOWSKI, 1995

Locality: Dzharakuduk, Uzbekistan.

Horizon: Taikarshkin Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Coniacian Stage, Lower Senonian Subepoch, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

56/11915: Coracoid.
Note: About the size of a lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).