Panguraptor Panguraptor
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Panguraptor 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (201–174 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Coelophysidae
Panguraptor (“Pangu [a Chinese god] plunderer”) is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur known from fossils discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks of southern China. The type and only known species is Panguraptor lufengensis. The generic name refers to the deity Pangu but also to the supercontinent Pangaea for which in a geological context the same characters are used: 盘古. Raptor means “seizer”, “robber” in Latin. The specific name is a reference to the Lufeng Formation. It was described in 2014 by You Hai-Lu and colleagues.
What we know
- Named by You et al., 2014.
- Fossils found in China.