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Maniraptora, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Coelurosaurs
Extant Late Jurassic first appearances
Oxfordian first appearances
Taxa named by Jacques Gauthier

Alvarezsauroidea

Alvarezsauroidea is a group of small maniraptoran dinosaurs. Maniraptora and Alvarezsauroidea are Oxfordian first appearances.

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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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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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Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds, and their closest relatives. Maniraptora and Avialae are Extant Late Jurassic first appearances, Oxfordian first appearances and taxa named by Jacques Gauthier.

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Beipiaosaurus

Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous in the Yixian Formation.

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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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Carpal bones

The carpal bones are the eight small bones that make up the wrist (carpus) that connects the hand to the forearm.

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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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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Clumped isotopes

Clumped isotopes are heavy isotopes that are bonded to other heavy isotopes.

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Coelurosauria

Coelurosauria (from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs. Maniraptora and Coelurosauria are coelurosaurs.

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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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Eshanosaurus

Eshanosaurus is a genus of a dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period.

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Femur

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

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Flight

Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight).

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Flight feather

Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges, singular remex, while those on the tail are called rectrices, singular rectrix.

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Fukuivenator

Fukuivenator ("hunter of Fukui Prefecture") is an extinct genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Japan. Maniraptora and Fukuivenator are coelurosaurs.

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Greater trochanter

The greater trochanter of the femur is a large, irregular, quadrilateral eminence and a part of the skeletal system.

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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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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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Hypercarnivore

A hypercarnivore is an animal which has a diet that is more than 70% meat, either via active predation or by scavenging.

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Integument

In biology, an integument is the tissue surrounding an organism's body or an organ within, such as skin, a husk, shell, germ or rind.

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Ischium

The ischium (ischia) forms the lower and back region of the hip bone (os coxae).

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Jacques Gauthier

Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948, in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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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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Kakuru

Kakuru is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period.

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Kevin de Queiroz

Kevin de Queiroz is a vertebrate, evolutionary, and systematic biologist.

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Lindsay Zanno

Lindsay E. Zanno is an American vertebrate paleontologist and a leading expert on theropod dinosaurs and Cretaceous paleoecosystems.

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Lunate

Lunate is a crescent or moon-shaped microlith.

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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. Maniraptora and Maniraptora are coelurosaurs, Extant Late Jurassic first appearances, Oxfordian first appearances and taxa named by Jacques Gauthier.

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Microraptor

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

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Middle Jurassic

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

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Migmanychion

Migmanychion (meaning "claw mixture") is an extinct genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of China. Maniraptora and Migmanychion are coelurosaurs.

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Mononykus

Mononykus (sometimes; meaning "one claw") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Asia on the Nemegt Formation, about 70 million years ago.

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Nothronychus

Nothronychus (meaning "slothful claw") is a genus of therizinosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Olecranon

The olecranon, is a large, thick, curved bony process on the proximal, posterior end of the ulna.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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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.

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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. Maniraptora and Ornitholestes are coelurosaurs.

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Ornithomimidae

Ornithomimidae (meaning "bird-mimics") is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches.

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Ornithomimosauria

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

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Ornithomimus

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

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Ovary

The ovary is a gonad in the female reproductive system that produces ova.

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Oviraptor

Oviraptor is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Oviraptoridae

Oviraptoridae is a group of bird-like, herbivorous and omnivorous maniraptoran dinosaurs.

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Oviraptorosauria

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

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Paraves

Paraves are a widespread group of theropod dinosaurs that originated in the Middle Jurassic period. Maniraptora and Paraves are Extant Late Jurassic first appearances.

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Patagonykus

Patagonykus (meaning "Patagonian claw") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina.

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Pedopenna

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

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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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Phylogenetic nomenclature

Phylogenetic nomenclature is a method of nomenclature for taxa in biology that uses phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below.

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Prince Creek Formation

The Prince Creek Formation is a geological formation in Alaska with strata dating to the Early Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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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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Pubis (bone)

In vertebrates, the pubis or pubic bone (os pubis) forms the lower and anterior part of each side of the hip bone.

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Pygostyle

Pygostyle describes a skeletal condition in which the final few caudal vertebrae are fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature.

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Rahonavis

Rahonavis is a genus of bird-like theropod from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, from about 72.1 to 66 mya) of what is now northwestern Madagascar.

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Saurischia

Saurischia (meaning "reptile-hipped" from the Greek (σαῦρος) meaning 'lizard' and (ἴσχιον) meaning 'hip joint') is one of the two basic divisions of dinosaurs (the other being Ornithischia), classified by their hip structure.

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Scansoriopterygidae

Scansoriopterygidae (meaning "climbing wings") is an extinct family of climbing and gliding maniraptoran dinosaurs.

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Scansoriopteryx

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

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Short-tailed albatross

The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific.

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Sinornithosaurus

Sinornithosaurus (derived from a combination of Latin and Greek, meaning 'Chinese bird-lizard') is a genus of feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period (late Barremian) of the Yixian Formation in what is now China.

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Sinosauropteryx

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

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Sinovenator

Sinovenator (meaning "Chinese hunter") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from China.

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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.

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Therizinosauridae

Therizinosauridae (meaning 'scythe lizards').

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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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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).

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Troodontidae

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

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Ulna

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

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Unquillosaurus

Unquillosaurus (meaning "Unquillo river lizard") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Blanquitos Formation of Salta Province, Argentina. Maniraptora and Unquillosaurus are coelurosaurs.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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Yaverlandia

Yaverlandia (meaning "of Yaverland Point/Yaverland Battery") is a genus of maniraptoran dinosaur. Maniraptora and Yaverlandia are coelurosaurs.

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Yixianosaurus

Yixianosaurus (meaning "Yixian lizard") is a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous of China.

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Zhenyuanlong

Zhenyuanlong (meaning "Zhenyuan's dragon", from Chinese Pinyin 龙/龍 lóng "dragon") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

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References

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

Also known as Aveairfoila, Aveairfoilans, Aviremigia, Chuniaoae, Maniraptor, Maniraptoran, Maniraptorans, Maniraptors, Metornithes, Pennaraptora.

, Oviraptorosauria, Paraves, Patagonykus, Pedopenna, Pennaceous feather, Phylogenetic nomenclature, Prince Creek Formation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Pterosaur, Pubis (bone), Pygostyle, Rahonavis, Saurischia, Scansoriopterygidae, Scansoriopteryx, Short-tailed albatross, Sinornithosaurus, Sinosauropteryx, Sinovenator, Therizinosauria, Therizinosauridae, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Tianyulong, Troodon, Troodontidae, Ulna, Unquillosaurus, Vertebrate, Yaverlandia, Yixianosaurus, Zhenyuanlong.

Maniraptora, the Glossary

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See also

Coelurosaurs

Extant Late Jurassic first appearances

Oxfordian first appearances

Taxa named by Jacques Gauthier

References