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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...
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related to them than to
Ornithomimus velox. It
contains the
major subgroups Avialae, Dromaeosauridae, Troodontidae, Oviraptorosauria, and Therizinosauria....
- 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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outside Dromaeosauridae,
being the
sister taxon or
closely related to
Avialae,
while others have
placed the
newly recognized halszkaraptorines in the...
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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...
- the ornithischians, then in the
lineage of
saurischians including birds (
Avialae), and
lastly in the therizinosaurians. This
would then be an
example of...
- coelurosaurs, Phil
Senter found Scansoriopteryx to be a
member of the
clade Avialae. This view was
supported by a
second phylogenetic analysis performed by...
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closer to
Avialae than to dromaeosaurines. A
large analysis published by Agnolín and
Novas (2013)
recovered Rahonavis as
closer to
Avialae than to Dromaeosauridae...
- If the
latter classification is used then the
larger group is
termed Avialae. Currently, the
relationship between non-avian dinosaurs, Archaeopteryx...
