What is Tianyuraptor?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Tianyuraptor'' | fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]] | image = Tianyuraptor NT.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Restoration | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Chordata]] | classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]] | superordo = [[Dinosauria]] | ordo = [[Saurischia]] | subordo = [[Theropoda]] | infraordo = [[Deinonychosauria]] | familia = [[Dromaeosauridae]] | subfamilia = ?[[Microraptorinae]] | genus = '''''Tianyuraptor''''' | genus_authority = Zheng ''et al.'' 2009 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = * ''T. ostromi'' <small>Zheng ''et al.'', 2009 ([[Type species|type]])</small> }} '''''Tianyuraptor''''' is a [[genus]] of short-armed [[dromaeosaurid]] [[dinosaur]] ('running lizard'; a type of small dinosaur considered to be closely related to birds) that lived during the [[Early Cretaceous]], about 122 million years ago. Its remains have been found in western Liaoning, [[China]]. It was similar to other dromaeosaurids found in [[Liaoning]], with the exception of being somewhat more primitive. The type specimen, formally described in 2009, shows features not seen in previously known [[Northern Hemisphere]] ([[Laurasia]]n) dromaeosaurids, but present in [[Southern hemisphere|Southern Hemisphere]] ([[Gondwana]]n) species and early [[bird]]s. The generic name of ''Tianyuraptor'' combines ''Tianyu'', referring to the [[Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature]] where the holotype specimen is stored, with raptor, the Latin word for 'robber'. {{biology-stub}} [[category:Dromaeosauridae]]