Luanchuanraptor
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Luanchuanraptor (meaning "Luanchuan thief") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of China. The genus is based on a partial skeleton from the Qiupa Formation in Luanchuan, Henan. They were medium-sized dromaeosaurids, the first Asian dromaeosaurid taxa described from outside the Gobi Desert or northeastern China.
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Elements from the holotype fossil 41HIII-0100 displayed at the Giga Dinosaur Exhibition 2017 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
Clade: | †Eudromaeosauria |
Subfamily: | †Velociraptorinae |
Genus: | †Luanchuanraptor Lü et al. 2007 |
Type species | |
†Luanchuanraptor henanensis Lü et al. 2007 |
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