Linhevenator tani Xu et al. 2011 (maniraptoran)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Troodontidae

Full reference: X. Xu, Q.-W. Tan, C. Sullivan, F.-L. Han, and D. Xiao. 2011. A short-armed troodontid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its implications for troodontid evolution. PLoS One 6(9):e22916:1-12

Belongs to Linhevenator according to X. Xu et al. 2011

See also Gianechini et al. 2017, Sellés et al. 2021, van der Reest and Currie 2017 and Xu et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LH V0021, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is "North Canyon" locality, Bayan Mandahu, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Wulansuhai Formation of China.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at "North Canyon" locality, Bayan Mandahu

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