It contains a single species, Almas ukhaa, named in 2017 by Pei Rui and colleagues, based on a partial articulated skeleton.

[1] In 1993, a joint expedition by the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences discovered near Ukhaa Tolgod, the Flaming Cliffs, a skeleton of a small theropod.

Though in subsequent years its traits were inserted in some data matrices of phylogenetic analyses, a description of the fossil was never published.

[1] In 2017, the type species Almas ukhaa was named and described by Pei Rui, Mark Norell, Daniel Barta, Gabriel Bever, Michael Pittman and Xu Xing.

[1] The holotype, IGM 100/1323, was found in a layer of the Djadochta Formation dating from the late Campanian.