Papiliovenator neimengguensis Papiliovenator
"butterfly hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Papiliovenator 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- China · Mongolia
- Food
- Carnivore
Papiliovenator (meaning “butterfly hunter”, after a butterfly-shaped feature on its first two dorsal vertebrae) is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur from the Bayan Mandahu Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. The type and only species is Papiliovenator neimengguensis.
What we know
- Named by Pei et al., 2022.
- Fossils found in China and Mongolia.