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Anchiornithidae is a
family of
small paravian dinosaurs.
Anchiornithids have been
classified at
varying positions in the
paravian tree, with some scientists...
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paleontologist Zheng Xiaoting.
Xiaotingia was
morphologically similar to
other anchiornithids. It was
about 60 cm long and
weighed an
estimated 0.82 kg. It was a...
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animal was
likely a subadult. In some theropods,
including other anchiornithids, the sca**** is
around 60% the
length of the humerus. In Fujianvenator...
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Avialae (in
Scansoriopterygids and
other avialans).
Archaeopteryx and "
anchiornithids" were
placed in Deinonychosauria, Avialae's
sister group. In a study...
- Jur****ic period. In
addition to the
extinct dromaeosaurids, troodontids,
anchiornithids, and
possibly the scansoriopterygids, the
group also
contains the avialans...
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isolated in a
group of
flightless deinonychosaurs (otherwise
considered "
anchiornithids"), they
considered it
highly probable that this
animal evolved flight...
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Aurornis is an
extinct genus of
anchiornithid theropod dinosaurs from the Jur****ic
period of China. The
genus Aurornis contains a
single known species...
- as an
indeterminate maniraptoran, but has
since been
recovered as an
anchiornithid, a scansoriopterygid, as a
basal eudromaeosaur, a saurornitholestine...
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remex morphologies that are
consistent with
modern volant birds,
while anchiornithids and
Caudipteryx were
secondarily flightless.
Sankar Chatterjee suggested...
- Anchiornis,
small feathered anchiornithid dinosaur...
