Genus: Panguraptor YOU, AZUMA, WANG, WANG & DONG, 2014
Etymology: The genus name is from "Pangu" (Chinese), well known in the Chinese mythology as the first living being and creator of all reality, and Latin, raptor, "theif or robber."

Species: lufengensis YOU, AZUMA, WANG, WANG & DONG, 2014
Etymology: In reference to "Lufeng County", one of the world's reichest sources of Early Jurassic terrestrial vertebrate fossils.

Holotype: LFGT-0103

Locality: Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China.

Horizon: Shawan Member, Lufeng Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Pliesbachian, or Sinemurian-?Toarcian Stage, Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material: Nearly complete skull and skeleton.

Skull.