Genus: Citipati CLARK, NORELL & BARSBOLD, 2001
Etymology: Citipati, from Sanskrit, citi, “funeral pyre” and Sanskrit, pati, “lord”, the lord of cemeteries in Tantric Buddhist tradition, typically depicted as a human skeleton.
= Oviraptor NORELL, CLARK, CHIAPPE, & DASHZEVEG, 1995, CLARK, NORELL & CHIAPPE, 1998
= Citiputi LU, TOMIDA, AZUMA, DONG & LEE, 2004 (sic)

Species: osmolskae CLARK, NORELL & BARSBOLD, 2001
Etymology: In honor of Halska Osmolska for her work on oviraptorids and other Mongolian theropod dinosaurs.
= Citputi osmlskue LU, TOMIDA, AZUMA, DONG & LEE, 2004 (sic)

Holotype: IGM 100/978

Locality: Ankylosaur flats, 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: Nearly complete skull and skeleton.

Note: Sitting over eggs.

Note: Has a furcula.

Referred material:

IGM 100/979: Fragmentary skeleton with eggs.
Note: Specimen is preserved protecting the eggs.
Note: A pathological broken and rehealed ulna.

Locality: Xanadu, 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 100/971: Egg with a fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

Referred material:

Number: Not given: Several adult and juvenile skeletons and eggs.

 

NORELL, BALANOFF, BARTA & ERICKSON, 2018

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

Horizon: Djadochta Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

IGM 100/1004: Fragmentary skull and nearly complete skeleton.

Note: Sitting over eggs.