Shanag ashile

TURNER, ALAN H., HWANG, SUNNY H. & NORELL, MARK A., 2007, A Small Derived Theropod from Öösh, Early Cretaceous, Baykhangor Mongolia, American Museum Novitates 3557 (1), pp. 1-28 : 3-4

Shanag ashile , new taxon

HOLOTYPE: IGM 100 /1119, nearly complete right maxilla, dentary, and partial splenial.

ETYMOLOGY: Shanag , Black-hatted dancers in the Buddhist Tsam festival, and ashile , in reference to the old Öösh locality and formation name used by Dr. Henry F. Osborn.

DIAGNOSIS: Small dromaeosaurid theropod diagnosed by the following combination of characters: triangular, anteriorly tapering maxilla; lateral lamina of nasal process of maxilla reduced to small triangular exposure; absence of a promaxillary fenestra; presence of interalveolar pneumatic cavities; incipient dentary groove on posterolateral surface of dentary.