Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda)

Citation

Senter, P.; Barsbold, R.; Britt, B. B.; Burnham, D. A. (2004). Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8: 1-20.

Names first published here

• Microraptorinae clade

Cited by genera

• Protarchaeopteryx

  Dromaeosaurid systematics study recovered Protarchaeopteryx among the basalmost oviraptorosaurs.

• Variraptor

  Could neither confirm nor rule out deinonychosaurian status.

Cited by clades

• Microraptorinae

  Named the clade Microraptoria (taxa closer to Microraptor than to Velociraptor or Dromaeosaurus), deliberately avoiding the -inae suffix; later authors use it as the subfamily Microraptorinae.