Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds, and their ancestors. It is usually defined as all theropod dinosaurs...

troodontids, while the body mass continued to decrease in many forms within Avialae. Fossils show that all the earliest members of Paraves found to date started...

related to them than to Ornithomimus velox. It contains the major subgroups Avialae, Dromaeosauridae, Troodontidae, Oviraptorosauria, and Therizinosauria....

known only from fossils, and assigning them, instead, to the broader group Avialae, on the principle that a clade based on extant species should be limited...

popular reference books as the oldest-known bird (member of the group Avialae). Older potential avialans have since been identified, including Anchiornis...

coelurosaurs, Phil Senter found Scansoriopteryx to be a member of the clade Avialae. This view was supported by a second phylogenetic analysis performed by...

phylogenetic taxonomy, and systematics of Ichthyornis and Apatornis (Avialae: Ornithurae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 286:...

the ornithischians, then in the lineage of saurischians including birds (Avialae), and lastly in the therizinosaurians. This would then be an example of...

Longrich, N. R. (2017). "Maaqwi cascadensis: A large, marine diving bird (Avialae: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada". PLOS...

This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Campanian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended...

Archaeopterygidae, or an assemblage of dinosaurs that are an evolutionary grade within Avialae or Paraves. Anchiornithids share many general features with other paravians...

member of the family Scansoriopterygidae and as a basal member of the clade Avialae; this was confirmed by the subsequent analysis conducted by Hu et al. (2009)...

Scientific American. Retrieved September 6, 2008. Padian, Kevin (2004). "Basal Avialae". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The...

†Halszkaraptorinae (duck-like; potentially semiaquatic) †Unenlagiinae (long-snouted) Avialae (modern birds and extinct relatives) Timeline of major dinosaur groups...

Maxillopoda Sauropsida Diplopoda Subclass sub: under Theria Thecostraca Avialae Chilognatha Infraclass infra: below Cirripedia Aves Helminthomorpha Subterclass...

of climbing and gliding dinosaurs Other (extinct) members of the clade Avialae, perhaps also other Maniraptorans The Flying Dinosaur, a roller coaster...

concluded that it was an early member of the group Avialae, along with Archaeopteryx. Members of Avialae, called avialans, are all more closely related to...

closer to Avialae than to dromaeosaurines. A large analysis published by Agnolín and Novas (2013) recovered Rahonavis as closer to Avialae than to Dromaeosauridae...

ancestors; whether they are not closer to other theropods groups than to the Avialae remains to be thoroughly tested (see Xiaotingia). †Anchiornis huxleyi Xu...

example, used the term "protobird" for primitive members of the clade Avialae. In this sense, protobirds would include animals like Confuciusornis, Sapeornis...

Phylum: Chordata Clade: Dinosauria Clade: Saurischia Clade: Theropoda Clade: Avialae Clade: Ornithothoraces Clade: Euornithes Stejneger, 1884 Subgroups †Archaeorhynchus...

from dinosaurs that are very primitive members of the bird lineage, or Avialae. The most primitive example is Epidexipteryx, which had a short tail with...

extant beetle. Perle et al. mistakenly described Mononykus as a member of Avialae, one more advanced than Archaeopteryx. They argued that the family Alvarezsauridae...

Xu et al. therefore (re)defined the concepts of Deinonychosauria and Avialae to the extent that Archaeopteryx and Xiaotingia belonged to the Deinonychosauria...

ornithomimosaurians. Dromaeosaurids share many features with early birds (clade Avialae or Aves). The precise nature of their relationship to birds has undergone...

ISBN 978-0-595-49596-2. OCLC 757322661. Padian, Kevin (2004). "Basal Avialae". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The...

If the latter classification is used then the larger group is termed Avialae. Currently, the relationship between dinosaurs, Archaeopteryx, and modern...

disputed status (avian? or non-avian?, where "avian" refers to the clade Avialae), as well as purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted...

Zhang, J., Yuan, C., Ji, X., Li, J. and Li, Y (2002). "[Discovery of an avialae bird - Shenzhouraptor sinensis gen. et sp. nov - from China]." Geological...

(small to medium-sized theropods) †Troodontidae (small, gracile theropods) Avialae (birds and extinct relatives) †Omnivoropterygidae (large, early short-tailed...