Genus

Valid Extinct

Linheraptor

Xu et al. 2010

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.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial

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Holotype specimen of Linheraptor exquisitus, the blocks including nearly the entire skeleton. © ★Kumiko★ from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Theropoda Unranked clade

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Neotheropoda Unranked clade

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Averostra Unranked clade

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Tetanurae Unranked clade

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Coelurosauria Unranked clade

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Maniraptora Unranked clade

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Paraves Unranked clade

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Deinonychosauria Infraorder

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Dromaeosauridae Family

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Eudromaeosauria Unranked clade

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Velociraptorinae Subfamily

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Linheraptor Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Wulansuhai

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (1)

Linheraptor exquisitus 84 Ma

Images 2

Bibliography

Original description

X. Xu, J. N. Choiniere, and M. Pittman, Q. Tan, D. Xiao, Z. Li, J. M. Clark, M. A. Norell, D. W. E. Hone, C. Sullivan. 2010. A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa 2403:1-9 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)