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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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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...
- Longrich, N. R. (2017). "Maaqwi cascadensis: A large,
marine diving bird (
Avialae: Ornithurae) from the
Upper Cretaceous of
British Columbia, Canada". PLOS...
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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...
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Phylogenetic Taxonomy, and
Systematics of
Ichthyornis and
Apatornis (
Avialae: Ornithurae)" (PDF).
Bulletin of the
American Museum of
Natural History...
- 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...
- This is an
incomplete list that
briefly describes vertebrates that were
extant during the Campanian, a
stage of the Late
Cretaceous Period which extended...
