Yuanmouraptor jinshajiangensis Yuanmouraptor
"Yuanmou County robber"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Yuanmouraptor 8 m (26.2 ft) long
5 people holding hands
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (174–163 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Metriacanthosauridae
Yuanmouraptor (meaning “Yuanmou County robber”) is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic Zhanghe Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Yuanmouraptor jinshajiangensis, known from a partial skull and several consecutive vertebrae.
What we know
- Named by Zou et al., 2025.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in China.