- were able to use
these wings to
glide or take off from the ground.
Microraptorines can be
distinguished from
other dromaeosaurids by
these features: A...
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Wulong (meaning "dancing dragon") is a
genus of
microraptorine dromaeosaurid dinosaurs from the
Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
Jiufotang Formation of China...
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Princeton University Press p. 136 N.R.
Longrich and P.J. Currie, 2009, "A
microraptorine (Dinosauria-Dromaeosauridae) from the Late
Cretaceous of
North America"...
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microraptorines forward by 45
million years.
While the Late Cretaceous,
North American Bambiraptor had
sometimes been
classified as a
microraptorine,...
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published before the
formal description of Changyuraptor, a
larger microraptorine with
evident flight capacities.
Sinornithosaurus was a
member of the...
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eudromaeosaurs was
sharper and more blade-like. In
unenlagiines and
microraptorines, the claw is
broader at its base.
Eudromaeosauria was
first defined...
- W.
Indiana University Press.
Longrich N.R. &
Currie P.J. (2009), "A
microraptorine (Dinosauria–Dromaeosauridae) from the Late
Cretaceous of
North America"...
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largest four-winged
microraptorine known,
exceeding previously known specimens in size by at
least 60%. Like
other microraptorines,
Changyuraptor had feathers...
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specifically the
middle of the
Jehol Biota, it is the
smallest known microraptorine thus far
discovered and one of the
smallest non-avian
theropod dinosaurs...
- PMID 17952398. S2CID 16380823. Longrich, N.R.; Currie, P.J. (2009). "A
microraptorine (Dinosauria–Dromaeosauridae) from the Late
Cretaceous of
North America"...
