Tianyuraptor

Tianyu (Museum) plunderer

• Tianyu · Chinese (Tianyu Museum of Nature) · the Tianyu Museum of Nature, Shandong
• raptor · Latin · plunderer, robber

The name honours the Tianyu Museum of Nature in Shandong, China, which houses the fossil, combined with the Latin word for "plunderer" or "robber", a common ending for raptorial dinosaurs. The only named species, T. ostromi, honours the paleontologist John Ostrom.

Named by

Zheng et al.

Year named

2010

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stages

Barremian – Aptian

Found in

Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China

A small feathered dromaeosaurid theropod, generally regarded as a valid genus and a fairly basal member of the Dromaeosauridae. The stage range given for the Yixian Formation is approximate.