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Solnhofen Formation of Germany, is
usually considered the
earliest known avialan which may have had the
capability of
powered flight; a
minority of studies...
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relatives are the crocodilians.
Birds are
descendants of the
primitive avialans (whose
members include Archaeopteryx)
which first appeared during the Late...
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avialan) IVPP V13476 (2003)
Yixianosaurus longim**** (2003;
possibly avialan)
Dilong paradoxus (2004)
Pedopenna daohugouensis (2005;
possibly avialan)...
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believed to be a
basal avialan based on
recent phylogenetic analyses, however, it was
originally proposed to be a
member of the
avialan sister taxon, Deinonychosauria...
- backward-pointing hip
characterizes the therizinosaurs, dromaeosaurids,
avialans, and some
primitive troodontids. The fact that the backward-pointing hip...
- ****uipteryx is an
extinct genus of
basal avialan dinosaurs found in
Early Cretaceous deposits from ****an's
Kitadani Formation. It
contains one species...
- diet,
including seed-eating (some troodontids) and insect-eating (many
avialans and alvarezsaurs). Oviraptorosaurs,
ornithomimosaurs and
advanced troodontids...
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Dinosaur coloration is
generally one of the
unknowns in the
field of paleontology, as skin
pigmentation is
nearly always lost
during the fossilization...
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Avialans of the Two
Medicine Formation Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images Gettyia G.
gloriae Upper "Tarsometatarsus" An...
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natural group which includes the most
recent common ancestor of all
avialans closer to
modern birds than to the enantiornithines. This
group was defined...
