Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 165–122 Ma
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Skeletal restoration of Anchiornis huxleyi by Scott Hartman, 2017
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Clade:
Paraves
Family:
†Anchiornithidae Xu et al. 2016 sensu Foth & Rauhut, 2017
Type species
†Anchiornis huxleyi
Xu et al., 2009
Genera
†Anchiornis
†Aurornis
†Caihong
†Eosinopteryx
†Fujianvenator
†Ostromia
†Pedopenna?
†Serikornis
†Xiaotingia
†Yixianosaurus
Synonyms
Tetrapterygidae (Chatterjee, 2015)
"Anchiornithosaurs" (Rauhut et al., 2016)
Anchiorninae [sic] (Xu et al., 2016 sensu Hu et al., 2018)
Anchiornithidae is a family of small paravian dinosaurs.[1] Anchiornithids have been classified at varying positions in the paravian tree, with some scientists classifying them as a distinct family, a basal subfamily of Troodontidae,[2][3][4][5] members of Archaeopterygidae,[2][6] or an assemblage of dinosaurs that are an evolutionary grade within Avialae[7] or Paraves.[8]
^Foth, C.; Rauhut, O. W. M. (2017). "Re-evaluation of the Haarlem Archaeopteryx and the radiation of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 236. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1076-y. PMC 5712154. PMID 29197327.
^ abXing Xu; Hailu You; Kai Du & Fenglu Han (28 July 2011). "An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae" (PDF). Nature. 475 (7357): 465–470. doi:10.1038/nature10288. PMID 21796204. S2CID 205225790. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
^Lee, M. S. Y. & Worthy, T. H. (2011). "Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird". Biology Letters. 8 (2): 299–303. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0884. PMC 3297401. PMID 22031726.
^Stephen L. Brusatte; Graeme T. Lloyd; Steve C. Wang; Mark A. Norell (2014). "Gradual assembly of avian body plan culminated in rapid rates of evolution across the dinosaur-bird transition". Current Biology. 24 (20): 2386–2392. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.034. PMID 25264248. S2CID 8879023.
^Cai-zhi Shen; Bo Zhao; Chun-ling Gao; Jun-chang Lü; Martin Kundrát (2017). "A New Troodontid Dinosaur (Liaoningvenator curriei gen. et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Western Liaoning Province". Acta Geoscientica Sinica. 38 (3): 359–371. doi:10.3975/cagsb.2017.03.06.
^Hartman, Scott; Mortimer, Mickey; Wahl, William R.; Lomax, Dean R.; Lippincott, Jessica; Lovelace, David M. (2019). "A new paravian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America supports a late acquisition of avian flight". PeerJ. 7: e7247. doi:10.7717/peerj.7247. PMC 6626525. PMID 31333906.
^Wang, M.; Wang, X.; Wang, Y.; Zhou, Z. (2016). "A new basal bird from China with implications for morphological diversity in early birds". Scientific Reports. 6: 19700. doi:10.1038/srep19700. PMC 4726217. PMID 26806355.
^Lefèvre, Ulysse; Cau, Andrea; Cincotta, Aude; Hu, Dongyu; Chinsamy, Anusuya; Escuillié, François; Godefroit, Pascal (2017). "A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers". The Science of Nature. 104 (9–10): 74. Bibcode:2017SciNa.104...74L. doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1496-y. PMID 28831510. S2CID 253637872.
Anchiornithidae is a family of small paravian dinosaurs. Anchiornithids have been classified at varying positions in the paravian tree, with some scientists...
Anchiornis and Xiaotingia (usually considered part of a distinct clade, Anchiornithidae) to also be members of the Archaeopterygidae, though most subsequent...
of the clade Anchiornithidae, which they consider to be the basalmost avialans. Other studies have recovered members of the Anchiornithidae in various phylogenetic...
Jurassic–Present, 150.8–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Earliest 165 Ma if Anchiornithidae are members Fossil specimen of Jeholornis prima Collage of four extant...
genera, like Eosinopteryx, Xiaotingia, and was placed in the family Anchiornithidae along with other relatives. Anchiornis is notable for its proportionally...
recovered as a scansoriopterygid. Lately it was placed to the family Anchiornithidae. The feet of Pedopenna resembled those of the related troodontids and...
Coelurosauria, which also includes dromaeosaurs and troodontids. The Anchiornithidae from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Eurasia have frequently suggested...
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