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Coelurosauria, the Glossary

Coelurosauria (from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.^[1]

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Coelurosaurs
Extant Middle Jurassic first appearances

Alvarezsauridae

Alvarezsauridae is a family of small, long-legged dinosaurs.

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Aniksosaurus (meaning "spring lizard", from Modern Greek Άνοιξη, "Spring", referring to the fact it was found on 21 September 1995, the onset of Spring on the Southern Hemisphere) is a genus of avetheropod dinosaur from what is now Chubut Province, Argentina.

See Coelurosauria and Aniksosaurus

Aorun

Aorun is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur first discovered in 2006, with its scientific description published in 2013. Coelurosauria and Aorun are coelurosaurs.

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Apomorphy and synapomorphy

In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy).

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Aratasaurus

Aratasaurus is an extinct genus of basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Romualdo Formation of Brazil. Coelurosauria and Aratasaurus are coelurosaurs.

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Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel" (Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Archaeopteryx

Asiamericana

Asiamericana is a dubious genus of coelurosaur known only from isolated teeth found in the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekhistan. Coelurosauria and Asiamericana are coelurosaurs.

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Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird metatarsals") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all archosaurs more closely related to birds than to crocodilians.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Bicentenaria

Bicentenaria (meaning "two hundred year anniversary"; named after the 200th anniversary of the 1810 May Revolution in Argentina) is an extinct genus of carnivorous coelurosaurian theropods which lived during the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Candeleros Formation of Argentina. Coelurosauria and Bicentenaria are coelurosaurs.

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Biology Letters

Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society, established in 2005.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Carnosauria

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Coelurosauria and Carnosauria are taxa named by Friedrich von Huene.

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Chilantaisaurus

Chilantaisaurus (" lizard") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur, possibly a neovenatorid or a primitive coelurosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China (Turonian age, about 92 million years ago).

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Coelurus

Coelurus is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (mid-late Kimmeridgian faunal stage, 155–152 million years ago). Coelurosauria and Coelurus are coelurosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Coelurus

Compsognathidae

Compsognathidae is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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CT scan

A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.

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Deinonychosauria

Deinonychosauria is a clade of paravian dinosaurs which lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods.

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Deinonychus

Deinonychus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.

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Enantiornithes

The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.

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Endocranium

The endocranium in comparative anatomy is a part of the skull base in vertebrates and it represents the basal, inner part of the cranium.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

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Feathered dinosaur

A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene born Friedrich Richard Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German nobleman paleontologist who described a large number of dinosaurs, more than anyone else in 20th century Europe.

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Gasosaurus

Gasosaurus is a genus of tetanuran theropod that lived approximately 171.6 to 161.2 million years ago during the middle of the Jurassic Period.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Gregory S. Paul

Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an American freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology.

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Gualicho

Gualicho (named in reference to the gualichu) is a genus of theropod dinosaur.

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Haifanggou Formation

The Haifanggou Formation, also known as the Jiulongshan Formation, is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.

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Hesperornithes

Hesperornithes is an extinct and highly specialized group of aquatic avialans closely related to the ancestors of modern birds.

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Hesperornithoides

Hesperornithoides (meaning "western bird form"; nicknamed "Lori") is a genus of troodontid theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period.

See Coelurosauria and Hesperornithoides

Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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House sparrow

The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.

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Huaxiagnathus

Huaxiagnathus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China.

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Iliosuchus

Iliosuchus (meaning "crocodile hipped") is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from Bathonian–age (168.3 – 166.1 mya) rocks of England. Coelurosauria and Iliosuchus are coelurosaurs and taxa named by Friedrich von Huene.

See Coelurosauria and Iliosuchus

Juravenator

Juravenator is a genus of small (75 cm long) coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur (although a 2020 study proposed it to be a hatchling megalosauroid), which lived in the area which would someday become the top of the Franconian Jura of Germany (Painten Formation), about 151 or 152 million years ago.

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Kileskus

Kileskus (meaning lizard in the Khakas language) is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic (Bathonian stage) Itat Formation of Sharypovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia).

See Coelurosauria and Kileskus

Kulindadromeus

Kulindadromeus was a herbivorous dinosaur, a basal neornithischian from the Middle Jurassic.

See Coelurosauria and Kulindadromeus

Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Lexico

Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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List of fossil bird genera

Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not.

See Coelurosauria and List of fossil bird genera

List of informally named dinosaurs

This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names.

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Lourinhanosaurus

Lourinhanosaurus (meaning "Lourinhã lizard") was a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian/Tithonian) in Portugal.

See Coelurosauria and Lourinhanosaurus

Maniraptora

Maniraptora is a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs which includes the birds and the non-avian dinosaurs that were more closely related to them than to Ornithomimus velox. Coelurosauria and Maniraptora are coelurosaurs.

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Megaraptora

Megaraptora is a clade of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs with controversial relationships to other tetanuran theropods.

See Coelurosauria and Megaraptora

Microraptor

Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Microraptor

Middle Jurassic

The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.

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Morrison Formation

The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America.

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Most recent common ancestor

In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended.

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Nuthetes

Nuthetes is the name given to a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, either a dromaeosaurid or a tyrannosauroid, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England and also the Angeac-Charente bonebed in France.

See Coelurosauria and Nuthetes

Origin of birds

The scientific question of within which larger group of animals birds evolved has traditionally been called the "origin of birds".

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Ornithischia

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds.

See Coelurosauria and Ornithischia

Ornitholestes

Ornitholestes (meaning "bird robber") is a small theropod dinosaur of the late Jurassic (Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation, middle Kimmeridgian age, about 154 million years agoTurner, C.E. and Peterson, F., (1999). "Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A." Pp. Coelurosauria and Ornitholestes are coelurosaurs.

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Ornithomimosauria

Ornithomimosauria ("bird-mimic lizards") are theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to the modern-day ostrich.

See Coelurosauria and Ornithomimosauria

Ornithomimus

Ornithomimus ("bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaurs from the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of Late Cretaceous Western North America.

See Coelurosauria and Ornithomimus

Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

See Coelurosauria and Oviraptorosauria

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Parvicursor

Parvicursor (meaning "small runner") is a genus of tiny maniraptoran dinosaur with long slender legs for fast running.

See Coelurosauria and Parvicursor

Pedopenna

Pedopenna (meaning "foot feather") is a genus of small, feathered, maniraptoran dinosaur from the Daohugou Beds in China.

See Coelurosauria and Pedopenna

Pennaceous feather

The pennaceous feather is a type of feather present in most modern birds and in some other species of maniraptoriform dinosaurs.

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Phaedrolosaurus

Phaedrolosaurus (meaning "elated lizard") is a genus of dubious coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, based on a single isolated and non-diagnostic tooth possibly from the Valanginian-Albian-aged Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. Coelurosauria and Phaedrolosaurus are coelurosaurs.

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Philip J. Currie

Philip John Currie (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

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Phylogenetic tree

A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.

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Proceratosauridae

Proceratosauridae is a family or clade of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.

See Coelurosauria and Proceratosauridae

Proceratosaurus

Proceratosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of England. Coelurosauria and Proceratosaurus are taxa named by Friedrich von Huene.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Richardoestesia

Richardoestesia is a morphogenus of theropod dinosaur teeth, originally described from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Canada, the United States and Kazakhstan. Coelurosauria and Richardoestesia are coelurosaurs.

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Sacrum

The sacrum (sacra or sacrums), in human anatomy, is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by the fusing of the sacral vertebrae (S1S5) between ages 18 and 30.

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Scansoriopteryx

Scansoriopteryx ("climbing wing") is a genus of maniraptoran dinosaur.

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Scipionyx

Scipionyx was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Pietraroja Formation of Italy, around 113 million years ago.

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Sciurumimus

Sciurumimus ("Squirrel-mimic," named for its tail's resemblance to that of the tree squirrel, Sciurus) is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod from the Late Jurassic Torleite Formation of Germany.

See Coelurosauria and Sciurumimus

Shanyangosaurus

Shanyangosaurus (meaning "Shanyang lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur found in Shaanxi, China, and known only from a partial sacrum, partial scapula, humeri, femur, tibia, metatarsals, and phalanges found in the Maastrichtian aged Shanyang Formation. Coelurosauria and Shanyangosaurus are coelurosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Shanyangosaurus

Shuvuuia

Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia.

See Coelurosauria and Shuvuuia

Sinosauropteryx

Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing") is a compsognathid dinosaur.

See Coelurosauria and Sinosauropteryx

Sphenoid bone

The sphenoid bone is an unpaired bone of the neurocranium.

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Tanycolagreus

Tanycolagreus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod from the Late Jurassic of North America. Coelurosauria and Tanycolagreus are coelurosaurs.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Teinurosaurus

Teinurosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur.

See Coelurosauria and Teinurosaurus

Therizinosauria

Therizinosaurs (once called segnosaurs) are an extinct group of large herbivorous theropod dinosaurs whose fossils have been found across the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous deposits in Europe, Asia and North America.

See Coelurosauria and Therizinosauria

Therizinosauridae

Therizinosauridae (meaning 'scythe lizards').

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Therizinosaurus

Therizinosaurus (meaning 'scythe lizard') is a genus of very large therizinosaurid that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Nemegt Formation around 72.1 million years ago to 66 million years ago.

See Coelurosauria and Therizinosaurus

Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. (born September 13, 1965) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology.

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Tianyulong

Tianyulong (Chinese: 天宇龍; Pinyin: tiānyǔlóng; named for the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature where the holotype fossil is housed) is an extinct genus of heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Troodon

Troodon (Troödon in older sources) is a former wastebasket taxon and a potentially dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs definitively known from the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period (about 77 mya).

See Coelurosauria and Troodon

Troodontidae

Troodontidae is a clade of bird-like theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous.

See Coelurosauria and Troodontidae

Tyrannosauridae

Tyrannosauridae (or tyrannosaurids, meaning "tyrant lizards") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that comprises two subfamilies containing up to fifteen genera, including the eponymous Tyrannosaurus.

See Coelurosauria and Tyrannosauridae

Tyrannosauroidea

Tyrannosauroidea (meaning 'tyrant lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that includes the family Tyrannosauridae as well as more basal relatives.

See Coelurosauria and Tyrannosauroidea

Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.

See Coelurosauria and Tyrannosaurus

Ulna

The ulna or ulnar bone (ulnae or ulnas) is a long bone in the forearm stretching from the elbow to the wrist.

See Coelurosauria and Ulna

Vayuraptor

Vayuraptor (meaning "wind thief") is a genus of basal coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Sao Khua Formation of Thailand. Coelurosauria and Vayuraptor are coelurosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Vayuraptor

Wellnhoferia

Wellnhoferia (named after Peter Wellnhofer) is a genus of early prehistoric bird-like theropod dinosaur closely related to Archaeopteryx.

See Coelurosauria and Wellnhoferia

Xinjiangovenator

Xinjiangovenator (meaning "Xinjiang hunter") is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaurs, possibly part of the group Maniraptora, which lived during the Early Cretaceous period, sometime between the Valanginian and Albian stages. Coelurosauria and Xinjiangovenator are coelurosaurs.

See Coelurosauria and Xinjiangovenator

Yixian Formation

The Yixian Formation (formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous.

See Coelurosauria and Yixian Formation

Zuolong

Zuolong is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod from the Late Jurassic period of China.

See Coelurosauria and Zuolong

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelurosauria

Also known as Avepectora, Avipinna, Bullatosauria, Ceolurosauria, Coelurosaur, Coelurosaurian, Coelurosaurians, Coelurosaurs, Coelurosaurus, Deinocheirosauria, Maniraptoriform, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptoriforms, Maniraptoromorph, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoromorphs, Neocoelurosaur, Neocoelurosauria, Neocoelurosaurian, Neocoelurosaurians, Neocoelurosaurs, Protoavia, Tyrannoraptora, Tyrannoraptoran, Tyrannoraptorans.

, Lourinhanosaurus, Maniraptora, Megaraptora, Microraptor, Middle Jurassic, Morrison Formation, Most recent common ancestor, Nuthetes, Origin of birds, Ornithischia, Ornitholestes, Ornithomimosauria, Ornithomimus, Oviraptorosauria, Oxford University Press, Paleontology, Parvicursor, Pedopenna, Pennaceous feather, Phaedrolosaurus, Philip J. Currie, Phylogenetic tree, Proceratosauridae, Proceratosaurus, Pterosaur, Richardoestesia, Sacrum, Scansoriopteryx, Scipionyx, Sciurumimus, Shanyangosaurus, Shuvuuia, Sinosauropteryx, Sphenoid bone, Tanycolagreus, Taxonomy (biology), Teinurosaurus, Therizinosauria, Therizinosauridae, Therizinosaurus, Theropoda, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Tianyulong, Tibia, Triassic, Troodon, Troodontidae, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosauroidea, Tyrannosaurus, Ulna, Vayuraptor, Wellnhoferia, Xinjiangovenator, Yixian Formation, Zuolong.

Coelurosauria, the Glossary

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Coelurosaurs

Extant Middle Jurassic first appearances

References