Outline: a typical theropod
Linheraptor
"Linhe robber"
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Linheraptor
What it was like
Linheraptor was a feathered raptor about the size of a large dog, a relative of Velociraptor, with a sickle claw on each foot. It is known from a nearly complete skeleton with a skull.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern China. Its skeleton comes from the Wulansuhai Formation, where it shared the land with Protoceratops, the armored Pinacosaurus and the small alvarezsaur Linhenykus.
How it was found
Xu and colleagues named Linheraptor in 2010, from a single, beautifully preserved skeleton. Some scientists think it is the same animal as Tsaagan from Mongolia.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, J. N. Choiniere, and M. Pittman, Q. Tan, D. Xiao, Z. Li, J. M. Clark, M. A. Norell, D. W. E. Hone, C. Sullivan. 2010. A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa 2403:1-9