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Digital skeletal rendering of the newly described velociraptorine dromaeosaur Linheraptor from Bayan Mandahu in Mongolia. The skull is very well preserved and is almost identical to Tsaagan, so they may be the same taxon. The skeleton is well articulated, but the vertebral column and ilium have not been prepared out yet, so this is the best I could do. Also, details of the feet and hands are uncertain since the photos of the specimen are difficult to work with in the absence of free access to it. I've had to take some guesses as to which elements are represented and I'm probably wrong in some (or most) of my guesses. So this is another piece that will need to be revised in the future as additional information is published and made available. For now though, it's a reasonably accurate represnetation of the animals overall shape and morphology.

Description
Digital skeletal rendering of the newly described velociraptorine dromaeosaur Linheraptor from Bayan Mandahu in Mongolia. The skull is very well preserved and is almost identical to Tsaagan, so they may be the same taxon. The skeleton is well articulated, but the vertebral column and ilium have not been prepared out yet, so this is the best I could do. Also, details of the feet and hands are uncertain since the photos of the specimen are difficult to work with in the absence of free access to it. I've had to take some guesses as to which elements are represented and I'm probably wrong in some (or most) of my guesses. So this is another piece that will need to be revised in the future as additional information is published and made available. For now though, it's a reasonably accurate represnetation of the animals overall shape and morphology.