Parviraptor
| Parviraptor Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Family: | †Parviraptoridae |
| Genus: | †Parviraptor Evans, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| †Parviraptor estesi Evans, 1994
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Parviraptor (lit. 'small robber') is a genus of reptiles in the enigmatic family Parviraptoridae. It contains one species, Parviraptor estesi, known from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) or Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset, England. A second species, Parviraptor gilmorei, was described from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Western North America, but it was subsequently transferred to the separate genus Diablophis. An indeterminate species is known from the Bathonian aged Kirtlington Mammal Bed (Kilmaluag Formation, Scotland).