Genus: Luanchuanraptor LU, XU, ZHANG, JI, JIA, HU, ZHANG & WU, 2007
Etymology: In reference to the Chinese administrative unit Luanchuan County of Henan Province, China, which the holotype belongs to, and Latin, raptor, "theif."

Species: henanensis LU, XU, ZHANG, JI, JIA, HU, ZHANG & WU, 2007
Etymology: In reference to Henan Province, China, where the holotype site-Luanchuan administratively belongs to.

Holotype: 41HIII-0100

Locality: Luanchuan, Henan Province, China.

Horizon: Qiupa Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, middle Senonian subepoch, upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: 4 nearly complete teeth, left frontal, posterior cervical vertebra, anterior dorsal vertebra (possibly the 1st dorsal), 2 anterior caudal vertebrae, 2 middle caudal vertebrae, 13 posterior-most caudal vertebrae, anterior, middle and posterior haemal archs, complete left scapulocoracoid, right humerus, complete right ilium and left pubis and other fragments.