Papiliovenator
Field photograph to come
Papiliovenator
DV-1188 · type species Papiliovenator neimengguensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Troodontidae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Pei et al. 2022
Field notes
About Papiliovenator
Papiliovenator was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago. It belongs to the family Troodontidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Papiliovenator, from China. Its fossils come from the Wulansuhai Formation. It was named by Pei et al. in 2022.
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 Troodontidae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. Pei, Y. Qin, and A. Wen, Q. Zhao, Z. Wang, Z. Liu, W. Guo, P. Liu, W. Ye, L. Wang, Z. Yin, R. Dai, X. Xu. 2022. A new troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Gobi Basin of inner Mongolia, China. Cretaceous Research 130:105052