Genus: Deinocheirus OSMOLOSKA & RONIEWICZ, 1970
Etymology: Greek, deinos, “terrible”, Greek, cheir “hand” + us, Terrible hand.

Species: mirificus OSMOLOSKA & RONIEWICZ, 1970
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Holotype: ZPAL MgD-I/6

Locality: Altan Ula III, Nemegt Basin, Ömnögov (South Gobi), Mongolia.

Horizon: Upper Nemegt Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Tarbosaurus bataar, Saurolophus angustirsotris and Dyoplosaurus giganteus Zone.

Age: Late Campanian or Early Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Shoulder girdle and fore limbs, fragmentary vertebrae and ribs.
Note: Palaeopathologies, left manual phalanges III-1 and III-2 bear pits, presumably from an injury to the joint between them.