Luanchuanraptor henanensis Luanchuanraptor
"Luanchuan thief"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Luanchuanraptor 1.8 m (5.9 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–66 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Carnivore
Luanchuanraptor (meaning “Luanchuan thief”) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of China. The genus is based on a partial skeleton from the Qiupa Formation in Luanchuan, Henan. They were medium-sized dromaeosaurids, the first Asian dromaeosaurid taxa described from outside the Gobi Desert or northeastern China.
What we know
- Named by Lü et al. 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 1.8 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.