Name
Papiliovenator (Butterfly hunter).
Phonetic
Pah-pe-lo-ven-ah-tor.
Named By
RuiPei, Yuying Qin, Aishu Wen, Qi Zhao, Zhe Wang ,Zhanmin Liu, Weilesi Guo ,Po Liu, Weiming Ye, Lanyun Wang, Zhigang Yin, Ruiming Dai, Xing Xu - 2022.
Classification
Chordata, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Troodontidae.
Diet
Carnivore.
Species
P. neimengguensis
Size
Skull roughly 11 centimetres long.
Known locations
China, Inner Mongolia - Wulansuhai Formation (a.k.a. Bayan Mandahu Formation).
Time Period
Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation
Partial skull, and partial post cranial remains.
Papiliovenator is a genus of troodontid dinosaur that lived in East Asia during the late Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A New Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Gobi Basin of Inner Mongolia, China. - Cretaceous Research. - RuiPei, Yuying Qin, Aishu Wen, Qi Zhao, Zhe Wang ,Zhanmin Liu, Weilesi Guo ,Po Liu, Weiming Ye, Lanyun Wang, Zhigang Yin, Ruiming Dai, Xing Xu - 2022.
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