Definition of Maniraptoran. Meaning of Maniraptoran. Synonyms of Maniraptoran

- Maniraptoriformes. Maniraptorans first appear in the fossil record during the Jur****ic Period (see Eshanosaurus), and survive today as living birds. Maniraptorans are...
- and small heads with beaks and leaf-shaped teeth. Further study of maniraptoran theropods and their relationships showed that therizinosaurs were not...
- Sanpetru Formation, Hunedoara County, Romania A largely viewed as dubious maniraptoran, possibly a troodontid, originally believed to be a pelecaniform bird...
- event of the Jur****ic was the appearance of true birds, descended from maniraptoran coelurosaurians. By the Early Cretaceous and the ongoing breakup of Pangaea...
- Barsbold (1983) and Zweers and Van den Berge (1997) noted that many maniraptoran lineages are extremely birdlike, and they suggested that different groups...
- Migmanychion (meaning "claw mixture") is an extinct genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of China. The...
- Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America...
- (meaning "climbing wings") is an extinct family of climbing and gliding maniraptoran dinosaurs. Scansoriopterygids are known from five well-preserved fossils...
- Scansoriopteryx ("climbing wing") is a genus of maniraptoran dinosaur. Described from only a single juvenile fossil specimen found in Liaoning, China,...
- placed in one of the major dinosaur clades, Theropoda, specifically as maniraptorans. Therizinosaurus is widely recovered within Therizinosauridae by most...