Linheraptor
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Linheraptor 1.8 m (5.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
Linheraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived in what is now China in the Late Cretaceous. It was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010, and contains the species Linheraptor exquisitus. This bird-like dinosaur was less than 2 m (6.5 ft) long and was found in Inner Mongolia. It is known from a single, nearly complete skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Xu et al., 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 1.8 m.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Linheraptor — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.