velociraptorine

English

Noun

velociraptorine (plural velociraptorines)

  1. Any theropod of the subfamily Velociraptorinae
    • 2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports‎, volume 5, DOI:10.1038/srep11775:
      In some most parsimonious trees the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form a clade, but in others various species are more closely related to the dromaeosaurine and velociraptorine clade.
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