- an
extinct family of
climbing and
gliding maniraptoran dinosaurs.
Scansoriopterygids are
known from five well-preserved fossils,
representing four species...
- was a small,
possibly tree-dwelling (arboreal) animal. Like
other scansoriopterygids, Yi
possessed an unusual,
elongated third finger, that
appears to...
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exhibited considerable size diversity, with some non-avian
theropods like
scansoriopterygids being no
bigger than
small birds.
Various synapomorphies for Theropoda...
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extinct dromaeosaurids, troodontids, anchiornithids, and
possibly the
scansoriopterygids, the
group also
contains the avialans,
which include diverse extinct...
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other scansoriopterygids,
Ambopteryx had a short,
blunt head and a hyper-elongate
third finger. It was
previously believed that
scansoriopterygids used...
- and
supported by a long
styliform bone as in
gliding mammals.
Other scansoriopterygids might have had
similar patagia,
based on
their long
third fingers...
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placement within the
group remains uncertain.
These forms include the
scansoriopterygids, Pedopenna, and Yixianosaurus. In 1993,
Perle and
colleagues coined...
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represent early alvarezsaurs, however, this has been questioned.
Scansoriopterygids, a
group of
small feathered coelurosaurs with membraneous, bat-like...
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separate times among paravian dinosaurs, two of
those among Avialae (in
Scansoriopterygids and
other avialans).
Archaeopteryx and "anchiornithids" were placed...
- Theropoda)
Zhongornis haoae as a
scansoriopterygid-like non-avian, and
morphological resemblances between scansoriopterygids and
basal oviraptorosaurs" (PDF)...
