A microraptorine (Dinosauria-Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of North America

Citation

Longrich, N. R.; Currie, P. J. (2009). A microraptorine (Dinosauria-Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(13): 5002-5007. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811664106

Names first published here

• Hesperonychus genus
• Hesperonychus elizabethae species
• Eudromaeosauria clade
• Saurornitholestinae clade

Cited by genera

• Atrociraptor

  Named Saurornitholestinae, recovering Atrociraptor as sister to Saurornitholestes in a new dromaeosaurid clade

• Hesperonychus
• Itemirus

  Recovered Itemirus as a velociraptorine, the sister of Velociraptor.

• Shanag

  Recovered Shanag within Microraptorinae.

Cited by clades

• Eudromaeosauria
• Saurornitholestinae

  Coined Saurornitholestinae for Saurornitholestes, Atrociraptor and Bambiraptor, and Eudromaeosauria for the larger clade.