Panguraptor ("Pangu [a Chinese god] plunderer") is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur known from fossils discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks of southern China. The type and only known species is Panguraptor lufengensis. The generic name refers to the deity Pangu but also to the supercontinent Pangaea for which in a geological context the same characters are used: 盘古. Raptor means "seizer", "robber" in Latin. The specific name is a reference to the Lufeng Formation. It was described in 2014 by You Hai-Lu and colleagues.
Panguraptor ("Pangu [a Chinese god] plunderer") is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur known from fossils discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks of southern China. The type and only known species is Panguraptor lufengensis. The generic name refers to the deity Pangu but also to the supercontinent Pangaea for which in a geological context the same characters are used: 盘古. Raptor means "seizer", "robber" in Latin. The specific name is a reference to the Lufeng Formation. It was described in 2014 by You Hai-Lu and colleagues.
==History and naming== The specimen that would be named Panguraptor was discovered by a survey team of the Bureau of Land and Resources of Lufeng County, China, on the hillside behind Xiaolishu Village, Lufeng Dinosaur Mountain Town. The team found the partially articulated skeleton exposed on the slope on . Due to weathering, there was not time to slowly clean the skeleton, so it was glued and plastered on location over the course of two days before being shipped to Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley. After four years it was inventoried and discovered to be a complete theropod skeleton, at which point it was cleaned and prepared over the course of a year. In 2014 the fossil, catalogued as Bureau of Land and Resources of Lufeng County LFGT-0103, was described by Chinese paleontologist Hailu You and colleagues as the type specimen of the new theropod Panguraptor lufengensis. The name is derived from the creator of all reality in Chinese mythology Pangu, the Latin word raptor for "thief" or "robber", and the Lufeng County.
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