Tianyuraptor
Field photograph to come
Tianyuraptor
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- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Zheng et al. 2009
Field notes
About Tianyuraptor
Tianyuraptor was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 120 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tianyuraptor, from China. Its fossils come from the Yixian Formation. It was named by Zheng et al. in 2009.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Zheng, X. Xu, and H. You, Q. Zhao, Z. Song. 2009. A short-armed dromaeosaurid from the Jehol Group of China with implications for early dromaeosaurid evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences