Linheraptor
Field photograph to come
Linheraptor
DV-0746
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Xu et al. 2010
Field notes
About Linheraptor
Linheraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Linheraptor, from China. Its fossils come from the Wulansuhai Formation. It was named by Xu et al. in 2010.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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