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Velociraptorinae
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Nominal Author | Barsbold 1983 |
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Taxon Status | ACTIVE |
Comments | Velociraptorinae was originally coined as a redundant suprageneric taxon by Barsbold (1983:89), as it contained only the single genus Velociraptor. The taxon was later used for a small clade (e.g. Currie 1995, Xu et al. 1999). These later authors recognized Velociraptorinae as the sister taxon to a monotypic Dromaeosaurinae. The more recent analyses of Hwang et al. (2002) and Makovicky et al. (2005), however, recovered less structure within Dromaeosauridae, and hence no evidence for a basal dromaeosaurine-velociraptorine split. A number of new dromaeosaurid taxa have been described, some that are occasionally placed closer to Aves than to Velociraptor mongoliensis. Under these circumstances, it is better to more clearly restict the potential taxonmic content of taxa with traditional subfamilial form so they do not intersect or overlap. The active definition is a first-order revision of the definition given in Sereno (1998) that uses species as specifiers and includes representatives of the other two dromaeosaurid subclades, Microraptorinae and Unenlagiinae, and Aves as external specifiers. |
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Active Definition |
The most inclusive clade containing Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn 1924 but not Dromaeosaurus albertensis Matthew and Brown 1922, Microraptor zhaoianus Xu et al. 2000, Unenlagia comahuensis Novas and Puerta 1997, Passer domesticus (Linnaeus 1758).
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Shorthand |
>Velociraptor mongoliensis but not Dromaeosaurus albertensi, Microraptor zhaoianus, Unenlagia comahuensis, Passer domesticus. |
Definitional Author |
Sereno 2005 |
Definition Status | checked |
Definition Type | STEM |
Node-Stem Triplet | NO |
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Specifier(s) A |
Velociraptor mongoliensis |
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Specifier(s) C |
Dromaeosaurus albertensis, Microraptor zhaoianus, Unenlagia comahuensis, Passer domesticus
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Earliest Record | All dromaeosaurids closer to Velociraptor than to Dromaeosaurus. |
Latest Record | Sereno 1998:65 |
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