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'''Graciliraptor''' is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a microraptorian dromaeosaurid first described in 2004. The fossils were found in Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China. These fossils comprised part of the maxilla, nearly complete fore and hind legs, a partial vertebrae, and a few teeth.
The type species, ''Graciliraptor lujiatunensis'', was described by Xu and Wang. It is believed to have been closely related to ''Microraptor'', another dromaeosaurid from the Cretaceous of China.

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★ page on Maniraptorids

★ page on ''Graciliraptor'', from Sinofossa Institute

References

Xu, Xing and Wang, Xiao-lin. 2004. A New Dromaeosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(2): 11-119.