Genus: Shri TURNER, MONTANARI & NORELL, 2021
Etymology: "Shri Devi," Sanskrit for a female protector deity in Tibetan/Mongolian Buddhism. Part of the Gelug tradition and particularly venerated in Mongolia, Shri Devi (Palden Lhamo) rides a horse or donkey across an ocean of blood. Her accoutrements include a saddle of a flayed human skin, the book of the law, and the dice of fortune.
= Dromaeosauridae incertae sedis CLARK, 1992/NORELL, CLARK & PERELE, 1992

Species: devi TURNER, MONTANARI & NORELL, 2021
Etymology: "Shri Devi," Sanskrit for a female protector deity in Tibetan/Mongolian Buddhism. Part of the Gelug tradition and particularly venerated in Mongolia, Shri Devi (Palden Lhamo) rides a horse or donkey across an ocean of blood. Her accoutrements include a saddle of a flayed human skin, the book of the law, and the dice of fortune.

Holotype: IGM 100/980

Locality: Khulsan, Nemgt Basin, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Barun Goyot Formation (similar to Djadochta Formation).

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Partial articulated skeleton including 23 presacral vertebrae, pelvis, anterior caudal vertebrae and chevrons, right leg including the femur, tibiotarsus and pes, and the left tibiotarsus.

Shri devi after CZEPINSKI, 2023.

Shri devi modified from CZEPINSKI, 2023: A) left and B) right side.

Referred material:

= Velociraptor mongolensis KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA & HURUM, 1997, BARSBOLD & OSMOLSKA, 1999, referred to Shri devi by CZEPINSKI, 2023

ZPAL MgD-I/97: Left jugal, left lacrimal, left maxilla, fragment of the right maxilla, palatine elements, both dentaries lackign the anteriormost poritons, both splenials, surangulars and angulars in close association with a distal portion of the left hindlimb; distal parts of the left tibula and tibia, astragalus and complete pes with four metatarsals and all phalanges.