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Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution

Xu, X.; Choiniere, J.; Tan, Q.; Benson, R. B. J.; Clark, J.; Sullivan, C.; Zhao, Q.; Han, F.; Ma, Q.; He, Y.; Wang, S.; Xing, H.; Tan, L. (2018)

Citation

Xu, X.; Choiniere, J.; Tan, Q.; Benson, R. B. J.; Clark, J.; Sullivan, C.; Zhao, Q.; Han, F.; Ma, Q.; He, Y.; Wang, S.; Xing, H.; Tan, L. (2018). Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution. Current Biology 28(17): 2853-2860.e3. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.057

Names first published here

Cited by genera

  • Aorun

    Recovered Aorun as an early-diverging alvarezsaurian theropod

  • Bannykus
  • Haplocheirus

    Included Haplocheirus in analysis of early alvarezsaurian forelimb evolution

  • Kelmayisaurus

    Gives "(Barremian-Aptian?)" only for the Xiyunykus horizon at Wucaiwan, not for the Lianmuqin at Wuerho.

  • Phaedrolosaurus

    Gives "(Barremian-Aptian?)" only for the Xiyunykus horizon at Wucaiwan, not for the Lianmuqin at Wuerho.

  • Tugulusaurus

    Recovered Tugulusaurus as a basal alvarezsauroid outside more derived alvarezsaurid lineages.

  • Xinjiangovenator

    Gives "(Barremian-Aptian?)" only for the Xiyunykus horizon at Wucaiwan, not for the Lianmuqin at Wuerho.

  • Xiyunykus

    Gives the holotype horizon as the upper Tugulu Group at Wucaiwan, "(Barremian-Aptian?)".

Cited by clades

  • Patagonykinae

    Recovered Patagonykus and Bonapartenykus outside Alvarezsauridae as successive outgroups on the alvarezsaurian stem, with Achillesaurus sister to Alvarezsauridae.