Species: elesitaiensis RUSSELL, & DONG, 1993
Etymology: Is named after the village of Elesitai near which the type material was found, Inner Mongolia.

Holotype: IVPP 88402

Locality: Approximately 106’5”E, 41’10”N, 23 km west of Tukemu Village in the Wulanbuhe Desert, eastern sector of the Alxa (Alashan) Desert, Inner Mongolia.

Horizon: Bayn Gobi Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage? Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Right dentary, 5 cervical vertebrae, cervical ribs, dorsal vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and 4 anterior sacral ribs, caudal vertebrae, scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, left carpals, and right distal carpal I, 3 fragmentary right metacarpals, phalanx I-1, II-1, II-2, III-1, III-2, phalanx I-2 ungual, Phalanx II-3 unguals, Ilia, shafts of ischium, and femur.

Referred material:

IVPP 88402: Isolated tooth, posterior cervical or anterior dorsal vertebrae, 4 articulated dorsal vertebrae.

IVPP 88501: 5 dorsal vertebrae, 2 sacral centra, right metacarpal I, left metacarpal III, manual phalanges I-1, II-1, II-2, III-2, Ungual phalanges I-2, II-3, III-4, fragmentary ilium, fragmentary femur, both ends of a left tibia, proximal end of right tibia, proximal ends of both fibulae, distal ends of metatarsal I-IV, right? pedal phalanges, II-1, II-2, III-1, III-2, III-3, IV-1, IV-2, IV-4, pedal unguals II-3, III-4, IV-5.

IVPP 88301: Vertebral and spinal remains, ribs.

IVPP 88510: Spinal remains.

AZUMA, 2005

FPDM-V7312: Cast of skeleton.

 

DONG, 2003

Locality: Tokhom site, Inner Mongolia.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given: Nearly complete skull.