Outline: a typical theropod
Linhevenator
"Linhe hunter"
Type species Linhevenator tani
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2011
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Linhevenator
What it was like
Linhevenator was a troodontid, a feathered, big-eyed theropod. Unlike most of its relatives, it had short, strong arms. It is known from a partial skeleton with a skull.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern China. Its bones come from the Wulansuhai Formation, a dry land shared with Protoceratops, the armored Pinacosaurus and the single-fingered Linhenykus.
How it was found
Xu and colleagues named it in 2011. The type species is Linhevenator tani.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Troodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: X. Xu, Q.-W. Tan, and C. Sullivan, F.-L. Han, D. Xiao. 2011. A short-armed troodontid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its implications for troodontid evolution. PLoS One 6(9):e22916:1-12