Raptorex
Field photograph to come
Raptorex
DV-0699 · type species Raptorex kriegsteini
- Lived
- 126 to 66 million years ago, Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Sereno et al. 2009
Field notes
About Raptorex
Raptorex was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 126 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Raptorex, from China. It was named by Sereno et al. in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
95 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Tyrannosauroidea.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. C. Sereno, L. Tan, and S. L. Brusatte, H. J. Kriegstein, X. Zhao, K. Cloward. 2009. Tyrannosaurid skeletal design first evolved at small body size. Science