Coelurosauria
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Coelurosauria from Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, "hollow") + οὐρά (ourá, "tail") + σαύρα (saúra, "lizard") + -ia, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards", is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.
Species
虛骨龍類（学名：Coelurosauria）又名空尾龍類，是群多樣性的獸腳亞目恐龍，包含許多次演化支，例如：暴龍超科、似鳥龍下目、以及手盜龍類（也包含鳥類）。虛骨龍類的範圍為：獸腳亞目中，所有親緣關係接近鳥類，而離肉食龍下目較遠的物種。目前的有羽毛恐龍幾乎都屬於虛骨龍類，使許多科學家認為大部分虛骨龍類擁有某種程度的羽毛。
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Avetheropoda
- Image
- Coelurus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Coelurosauria
- taxon name
- Coelurosauria
- taxon rank
- clade
- Commons gallery
- Coelurosauria
- taxon common name
- 虛骨龍類
- start time
- 165000000-
- temporal range start
- Middle Jurassic
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Anatomy
- Bodyplan
- Integument
- Nervous system and senses
- Fossil evidence and age
- Classification
- See also
- References
- References
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Coelurosauria from Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, "hollow") + οὐρά (ourá, "tail") + σαύρα (saúra, "lizard") + -ia, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards", is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.
Coelurosauria is a subgroup of theropod dinosaurs that includes compsognathids, tyrannosauroids, ornithomimosaurs, maniraptorans, and over the recent years, megaraptorans (although their position within the clade is unclear). Maniraptora includes birds, the only known dinosaur group alive today. In the past, Coelurosauria was used to refer to all small theropods, but this classification has since been amended.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coelurosauria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.