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....
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troodontids, while the body mass 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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popular reference books as the oldest known bird (member of the group Avialae). Older potential avialans have since been identified, including Anchiornis...
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known only from fossils, and assigning them, instead, to the broader group Avialae, on the principle that a clade based on extant species should be limited...
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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...
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the ornithischians, then in the lineage of saurischians including birds (Avialae), and lastly in the therizinosaurians. This would then be an example of...
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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)...
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closer to Avialae than to dromaeosaurines. A large analysis published by AgnolĂn and Novas (2013) recovered Rahonavis as closer to Avialae than to Dromaeosauridae...
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example, used the term "protobird" for primitive members of the clade Avialae. In this sense, protobirds would include animals like Confuciusornis, Sapeornis...
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