Genus: Mahakala TURNER, POL, CLARKE, ERICKSON, & NORELL, 2007
Etymology: "Mahakala," Sanskrit for one of the eight protector deities
(Dharmapalas)
in Tibetan Buddhism.
Species: omnogovae TURNER, POL, CLARKE, ERICKSON, & NORELL, 2007
Etymology: The specific epithet refers to Ömnögov, Mongolia, the southern Gobi provieance of
this taxon.
Holotype: IGM 100/1033
Locality: Tugruyin Shireh, Ömnögov, Mongolia.
Horizon: Tugrungyin Member, Djakokhta Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Braincase, frontal, axis, right ulna, ilium, femur, tibia, left
metatarsus, right raptoral claw and ungual, 6 mid caudal vertebrae with 3
chevrons, sacrum and partial right leg,