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Linheraptor

Say it: LIN-heh-RAP-tor

Name means: “Linhe thief”1

Ate: MeatRaptorsLate Cretaceous

Linheraptor was a fast, bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now China. It was a small predator, about the size of a big dog, and used its sharp claws to catch prey.1

Lived

84 to 72 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Inner Mongolia, China1 2

Food

Meat1

Length

1.8 m1

Weight

25 kg1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 6 house cats

as long as 4 house cats nose to tailas long as 10 bananas end to endas heavy as 5 watermelons

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Fun facts

Linheraptor was a dromaeosaurid, meaning it was a close relative of Velociraptor.1

Its nearly complete skeleton was found in 2008 by Jonah N. Choiniere and Michael Pittman.1

Linheraptor had a large claw on each foot that it may have used to grab and hold onto prey.1

It lived during the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, about 83 to 72 million years ago.2

Linheraptor is thought to be most closely related to another dromaeosaurid called Tsaagan.1

AI-made picture of Linheraptor — An AI-made picture of how Linheraptor might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Linheraptor

?How big was Linheraptor?

About 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) long and weighed up to 25 kilograms (55 lb). That is roughly the size of a big dog.1

?What did Linheraptor eat?

It was a carnivore, meaning it ate meat. It may have hunted small ceratopsians, using its large toe claws to grab prey.1

?Did Linheraptor have feathers?

The sources do not say for sure, but since it was a bird-like dromaeosaurid and a close relative of Velociraptor, many scientists think it probably had feathers.1

?Is Linheraptor a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It was a dromaeosaurid theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now China.1

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For dino experts

Scientific name: Linheraptor
Named by: Xu et al. 20103
Group: Raptors
Family / clade: Dromaeosauridae3
Classification: Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae3
Age of the rocks: 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)3
Rock formations: Wulansuhai3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Linheraptor was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010 based on a nearly complete skeleton found in Inner Mongolia, China.1
Still debated: Some scientists think Linheraptor might actually be the same species as Tsaagan mangas, but others disagree based on differences in the skeleton.1

Where the facts come from

Linheraptor (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Linheraptor in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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