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    genus Balaur, after the balaur (Romanian pronunciation: [baˈla.ur]), a dragon of Romanian folklore. The specific name bondoc (Romanian pronunciation:...
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    cognate with balaur, and is regarded as one of the few pre-Slavic Balkan relict words in Serbo-Croatian. The maniraptor theropod Balaur bondoc is named after...
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    gigantism, in this case to fill the otherwise empty niche of apex predator. Balaur bondoc was originally classified as a dromaeosaurid dinosaur based on its retractable...
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    incomplete material until new specimens were reported in the 21st century. Balaur bondoc might represent a junior synonym of this taxon. In the late nineteenth...
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    size and reduced capacity for flight, Balaur bondoc appears to have secondarily lost its capacity for flight. Balaur is currently believed to be a basal...
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    dataset from Longrich and Currie (2009). Velociraptor osmolskae and Balaur bondoc were added, Itemirus was excluded (following its identification as a...
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    large-bodied predatory eudromaeosaurs. One possible dromaeosaurid species, Balaur bondoc, also possessed a first toe which was highly modified in parallel with...
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    Balaur bondoc, possessed a first toe which was highly modified in parallel with the second. Both the first and second toes on each foot of B. bondoc were...
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    not a dromaeosaur, but actually an avialan close to modern birds like Balaur bondoc based on phylogenetic analyses in 2019. Due to the extent of the hindwings...
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    was updated by Cau et al. during a 2015 study on the affinities of Balaur bondoc) focused specifically on coelurosaurs and found that anchiornithids...
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    phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc(Dinosauria, Maniraptora): Dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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    that Hesperonychus is actually an avialan close to modern birds like Balaur bondoc based on phylogenetic analyses, though they disagreed with microraptorines...
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    Watanabe, A.; Erickson, G. M.; Norell, M. A. (2013). "The osteology of Balaur bondoc, an island-dwelling dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the late...
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    phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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    also be a non-avian deinonychosaur closely related to dromaeosaurids. Balaur bondoc: A strange paravian that possessed a suite of unique features, such...
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    has a prominent flexor heel, a trait shared by the Romanian paravian Balaur bondoc. Before Imperobator was officially described, a paper published in 2007...
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    phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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  • Watanabe, A.; Erickson, G. M.; Norell, M. A. (2013). "The Osteology of Balaur bondoc, an Island-Dwelling Dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late...
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  • Watanabe, A.; Erickson, G. M.; Norell, M. A. (2013). "The Osteology of Balaur bondoc, an Island-Dwelling Dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late...
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  • nopcsai as a probable secondarily flightless avialan, and argue that Balaur bondoc might be a junior synonym of E. nopcsai. A study the relationship between...
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  • phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc(Dinosauria, Maniraptora): Dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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    Achillobator giganticus Balaur bondoc Dromaeosaurus albertensis Utahraptor ostrommaysi...
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  • Cumnoria prestwichii and Uteodon aphanoecetes to the genus Camptosaurus. Balaur bondoc, originally interpreted as a member of Dromaeosauridae, is argued to...
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  • phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): Dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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  • phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): Dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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    phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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    affinites and those of other deinonychosaurian theropods except for Balaur bondoc weren't well established. Dinosaurs portal Timeline of dromaeosaurid...
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  • river basins of the western shore of the Western Interior Seaway. †BalaurBalaur bondoc 70 Ma Sebes Formation, Alba County Romania An avialian from Romania...
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    phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc(Dinosauria, Maniraptora): Dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ...
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  • Holotype specimen of Balaur bondoc...
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