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Avialae ("bird wings") is a
clade containing the only
living dinosaurs, the birds, and
their closest relatives. It is
usually defined as all theropod...
- po****r
reference books as the
oldest known bird (member of the
group Avialae).
Older potential avialans have
since been identified,
including Anchiornis...
- troodontids,
while the body m****
continued to
decrease in many
forms within Avialae.
Fossils show that all the
earliest members of
Paraves found to date started...
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related to them than to
Ornithomimus velox. It
contains the
major subgroups Avialae, Dromaeosauridae, Troodontidae, Oviraptorosauria, and Therizinosauria....
- ornithomimosaurians.
Dromaeosaurids share many
features with
early birds (clade
Avialae or Aves). The
precise nature of
their relationship to
birds has undergone...
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known only from fossils, and ****igning them, instead, to the
broader group Avialae, on the
principle that a
clade based on
extant species should be limited...
- Longrich, N. R. (2017). "Maaqwi cascadensis: A large,
marine diving bird (
Avialae: Ornithurae) from the
Upper Cretaceous of
British Columbia, Canada". PLOS...
- †Halszkaraptorinae (duck-like;
potentially semiaquatic) †Unenlagiinae (long-snouted)
Avialae (modern
birds and
extinct relatives)
Timeline of
major dinosaur groups...
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member of the
family Scansoriopterygidae and as a
basal member of the
clade Avialae; this was
confirmed by the
subsequent analysis conducted by Hu et al. (2009)...
- of this article, a 'bird' is
considered to be any
member of the
clade Avialae. Some
dinosaur groups which may or may not be true
birds are
listed below...
