Papiliovenator
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.
Species: P. neimengguensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
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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