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.

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.