Welcome to Palaeocritti, the ultimate guide to prehistoric animals! Palaeocritti allows you to look up prehistoric critters by group, period, name or location. Use the navigation tools on the left for a journey through time...  Critter of the week: Linheraptor Presented by Dean Lomax  Did you know... Linheraptor is a small dromaeosaurid dinosaur (often called 'raptors') from Inner Mongolia, it was found in 2008 and described in 2010. The holotype and only known specimen consists of an almost complete and exquisitely preserved skeleton, which includes a skull. The specimen measures 1.8 m in length, and has been identified as a probable adult. Linheraptor lived during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) and is closely related to both Tsaagan and Velociraptor. Image reconstruction by N. Tamura |
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