[1][2] In 2008, the Korea-Mongolia International Dinosaur Expedition discovered an oviraptorosaurian skeleton at the Altan Uul III site in Ömnögovi Province, in the Gobi Desert.

The specific name means "the minute one" in Latin, a reference to the small size of the type specimen.

[1] The holotype, MPC-D 102/111, was found in a layer of the Nemegt Formation, probably dating from the early Maastrichtian, about seventy million years old.

Each dentary has at the top inner side a rudimentary triturating shelf pierced by four small oval occlusal foramina.

As its foot was not arctometatarsal and the animal thus was not a specialised running form, the describing authors considered it unlikely that Gobiraptor was a carnivore.

The thick front lower jaws were specialized for crushing food such as bivalves (durophagy) and seeds (granivory).