1924, from Latin velox (genitive velocis) "swift, speedy" (see velocity) + raptor "robber" (see raptor). Fossil remains discovered in 1923 in the red Djadochta sandstone at Shabarakh Usu in Mongolia.
The first (Fig. 1) of the typical megalosaurian type, although of small size, seems to have been an alert, swift-moving carnivorous dinosaur to which the generic name Velociraptor is applied. [Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Three New Therapoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia," in "American Museum Novitates," Nov., 7, 1924]
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1. Velociraptor probably plain coordinates? by their silver how to be looted?
迅猛龙平原大概坐标? 被它们抢走的银币怎么得到?
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2. Is spielberg's Jurassic Park razor - clawed Velociraptor an accurate portrayal?