Panguraptor ("Pangu [a Chinese god] plunderer") is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur known from fossils discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks of southern China.

The generic name refers to the deity Pangu but also to the supercontinent Pangaea for which in a geological context the same characters are used: 盘古.

Due to weathering, there was not time to slowly clean the skeleton, so it was glued and plastered on location over the course of two days before being shipped to Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley.

[2] In 2014 the fossil, catalogued as Bureau of Land and Resources of Lufeng County LFGT-0103, was described by Chinese paleontologist Hailu You and colleagues as the type specimen of the new theropod Panguraptor lufengensis.

The name is derived from the creator of all reality in Chinese mythology Pangu, the Latin word raptor for "thief" or "robber", and the Lufeng County.

Only the single specimen of Panguraptor has been found, which includes a partially complete articulated skeleton with the skull, neck, and back, most of the right forelimb, and both hindlimbs.

This specimen is likely a sub-adult due to its small size (approximately 2 meters long in life), large orbit, and unfused scapulocoracoids and astragalocalcaneum.

The rather short skull is almost complete, although the premaxilla and rostral edge of the maxilla are missing and the nasals are partially obscured.

The exposed portions of the nasal are wide and smooth and do not show any sign of a sagittal crest present in some other basal theropods.