Liaoningvenator

Liaoning hunter

• Liaoning · Chinese (place name) · Liaoning Province, China
• venator · Latin · hunter

The name combines Liaoning, the province in northeastern China where the fossil was found, with the Latin word for "hunter". It means "Liaoning hunter" and marks this small, feathered, predatory troodontid as a hunter from the Liaoning fossil beds. The only species, L. curriei, honours the paleontologist Philip Currie.

Named by

Shen et al.

Year named

2017

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China

A small troodontid theropod from the Jehol Biota. Type species is Liaoningvenator curriei. I am not certain of the exact geologic stage, so I left it blank.