It has been suggested that this article be merged into Eudromaeosauria. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024.
Dromaeosaurines
Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Reconstructed skull of Dromaeosaurus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Dromaeosauridae
Clade:
†Eudromaeosauria
Subfamily:
†Dromaeosaurinae Matthew & Brown 1922
Type species
†Dromaeosaurus albertensis
Matthew & Brown 1922
Genera
†Achillobator?
†Boreonykus?
†Dakotaraptor?
†Deinonychus?
†Dromaeosauroides?
†Dromaeosaurus
†Itemirus?
†Utahraptor
†Yurgovuchia
Dromaeosaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae. The earliest dromaeosaurine is Utahraptor, dating back to the Early Cretaceous in North America. Some isolated teeth seems to represent an indeterminate species of dromaeosaurine, coming from the Late Jurassic in Africa, which could potentially push their range to an earlier time period.
Most dromaeosaurs are small carnivores, however, dromaeosaurines are represented by some of the largest species (Achillobator, Dakotaraptor, Utahraptor). So far, Dakotaraptor is the only dromaeosaurine with evidence of quill knobs, indicating a plumage; based on this, other members likely had them.
Dromaeosaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae. The earliest dromaeosaurine is Utahraptor, dating back to the Early Cretaceous in...
like Dromaeosaurus and Velociraptor. Utahraptor is in the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae, which contained the biggest of the dromaeosaurs in the form of Utahraptor...
Formation. Dromaeosaurus is the type genus of both Dromaeosauridae and Dromaeosaurinae, which include many genera with similar characteristics to Dromaeosaurus...
William Diller Matthew and Barnum Brown, who erected it as a subfamily (Dromaeosaurinae) of the family Deinodontidae in 1922, containing only the new genus...
Group. This study currently classifies Deinonychus as a member of the Dromaeosaurinae. A 2021 study of the dromaeosaurid Kansaignathus recovered Deinonychus...
Utahraptor were recovered as close relatives of Dromaeosaurus in the Dromaeosaurinae. However, other studies place the two in the Velociraptorinae, such...
grouping, the inclusion of Saurornitholestes is still uncertain. The Dromaeosaurinae are usually found to consist of medium- to giant-sized species, with...
by Longrich and Currie as the sister taxon to a clade formed by the Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae. However, not all phylogenetic analyses recover...
rather have suggested it is a paraphyletic grade which gave rise to the Dromaeosaurinae. When first described in 1924, Velociraptor was placed in the family...
theropod dinosaurs. Dromaeosauroides was classified as a member of the Dromaeosaurinae subfamily within the Dromaeosauridae, due to its similarity to Dromaeosaurus...
outside of the Velociraptorine and Dromaeosaurinae. Traditionally, Adasaurus was assigned to the Dromaeosaurinae, which includes giant, heavily built...
Eudromaeosauria, but not within Velociraptorinae, Saurornitholestinae and Dromaeosaurinae. One of the claws on the right hand of the type specimen of Dineobellator...
that included eudromaeosaurs, which in turn includes the Laurasian Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae subfamilies. This condition, where a node (which...
Ostrom to follow Edwin Colbert and Dale Russel's suggestion that the Dromaeosaurinae be regarded as its own family separate from the Deinodontidae. After...
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