Genus: Gobiraptor LEE, LEE, CHINSAMY, LÜ, BARSBOLD, & TSOGTBAATAR, 2019
Etymology: In reference to the Gobi Desert, and Latin, raptor, "theif."
Species: minutus LEE, LEE, CHINSAMY, LÜ, BARSBOLD, & TSOGTBAATAR, 2019
Etymology:
Latin, minutus, "small"; in refenence to the small size of the holotype.
Holotype: MPC-D 102/111
Locality: Altan Uul III, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.
Horizon: Upper Nemegt Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Campanian or Early Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Ventral parts of the premaxillae an dmaxillae, a tip of the right jugal, fused vomer, parts of articulated pterygoids and ectopterygoids, incomplete right palatine, central part of the left postorbital, partial right quadrate and quadratojugal, incomplete lower jaw, with most of its elements broken, the last sacral vertebra which is articulated with two proximalmost caudal vertebrae, articulated but incomplete pelvic girdls, nearly complete femora, complete left metatarsus with distal tarsals 3 and 4, incomplete left pedal digits I, III, and IV, and unidentified fragments.