Anchiornis is a genus of small, four-winged paravian dinosaurs, with only one known species, the type species Anchiornis huxleyi, named for its similarity...
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Xiaotingia, Anchiornis, and Aurornis. Compared to Archaeopteryx, Xiaotingia was found to be more closely related to extant birds, while both Anchiornis and Aurornis...
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Dinosaur coloration (section Anchiornis)
feathers. In 2010, paleontologists studied a well-preserved skeleton of Anchiornis, an averaptoran from the Tiaojishan Formation in China, and found melanosomes...
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Dromaeosauridae. The clade containing avialans, microraptorians, unenlagiids, Anchiornis, and Xiaotingia to the exclusion of Eudromaeosauria was named Averaptora...
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specimens of the avialan Anchiornis has found that the traits exhibited by Aurornis fall within the range of variation in Anchiornis, warranting their synonymization...
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million years ago. The avialan species from this time period include Anchiornis huxleyi and Aurornis xui. Xiaotingia zhengi used to be considered a member...
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A 2017 study describing new specimens of Anchiornis found Eosinopteryx only distinguishable from Anchiornis in the length of the tail, but the tail of...
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and Oliver Rauhut concluded it was more closely related to the Chinese Anchiornis and introduced the generic name Ostromia, named after Ostrom. The only...
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recovered as an avialan, while Xiaotingia remained closely allied to Anchiornis within the Troodontidae. In 2012, an expanded and revised version of the...
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genera (or between individuals in the case of numerous genera such as Anchiornis). Most had vaned tail feathers forming a frond-shaped tail, with the tails...
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