Shri Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), ~
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Skeletal diagram of the holotype and ZPAL MgD-I/97 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
Clade: | †Eudromaeosauria |
Subfamily: | †Velociraptorinae |
Genus: | †Shri Turner et al, 2021 |
Species: | †S. devi
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Binomial name | |
†Shri devi Turner et al., 2021
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Shri (named after Palden Lhamo, a Buddhist deity) is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, with fossils reported from Barun Goyot Formation in Khulsan, Mongolia. The type and only species, Shri devi, was described in 2021 by paleontologist Alan H. Turner and colleagues.[1]