Coelurosauria (/sɪˌljʊərəˈsɔːri.ə/; from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to...

Gauthier in 1986 and originally had two main subgroups: Carnosauria and Coelurosauria, the clade containing birds and related dinosaurs such as compsognathids...

had come to find that megaraptorans instead represented members of Coelurosauria, with their exact position within this group being uncertain. However...

divided into the suborders Coelurosauria and Pachypodosauria. Huene placed most of the small theropod groups into Coelurosauria, and the large theropods...

some previous analyses by other authors, Megaraptora is nested within Coelurosauria, as the sister taxon to Tyrannosauroidea. The cladogram below displays...

tyrannosaurids) that were more closely related to birds were placed in Coelurosauria. Modern cladistic analysis defines Carnosauria as those tetanurans sharing...

relationships to other theropods started to resolve, and they were moved to the Coelurosauria. Recognizing the distinctiveness of ornithomimids compared to other...

allosauroids; includes some of the largest purely terrestrial carnivores) Coelurosauria (feathered theropods, with a range of body sizes and niches) †Megaraptora...

Compsognathidae. Friedrich von Huene, in 1914, erected the new infraorder Coelurosauria, which includes the Compsognathidae amongst other families of small...

Although its name is linked to one of the main divisions of theropods (Coelurosauria), it has historically been poorly understood, and sometimes confused...

classification was accepted by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1882, and added to the Coelurosauria clade by Friedrich von Huene in 1914 after additional fossils had been...

digit II makes this hypothesis difficult to confirm. The infraorder Coelurosauria, coined in 1914 by Friedrich von Huene, was traditionally a taxonomic...

cladistic analyses instead began to place tyrannosaurids into the Coelurosauria, echoing suggestions first published in the 1920s. Tyrannosaurids are...

A. (April 2019). "Phylogeny of A New Gigantic Paravian (Theropoda; Coelurosauria; Maniraptora) From The Upper Cretaceous Of James Ross Island, Antarctica"...

some previous analyses by other authors, Megaraptora is nested within Coelurosauria, as the sister taxon to Tyrannosauroidea. The cladogram below displays...

Ornithischia and possibly Dinosauria as a whole, rather than just to Coelurosauria, as previously suspected. In 2014, the type species Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus...

century, Friedrich von Huene included Ornithomimidae in his infraorder Coelurosauria. Recognizing the distinctiveness of ornithomimids compared to other...

with four other proposed Compsognathids in a polytomy within basal Coelurosauria. This polytomy notably did not include Composognathus proper, which...

†Allosauroidea Coelurosauria...

Megaraptora? Coelurosauria see below↓...

tyrannosaurids identified as members of a separate branch of theropods, the Coelurosauria. Allosauridae is the smallest of the carnosaur families, with only Saurophaganax...

Late Jurassic of Germany. Avialans belong to the clade Paraves within Coelurosauria, which also includes dromaeosaurs and troodontids. The Anchiornithidae...

Coelurosauria Carnosauria...

primitive members of the Coelurosauria, more derived than the megalosauroids. However, this analysis focused on the Coelurosauria and the dataset on which...

within the Averostra, outside of the major clades Abelisauroidea and Coelurosauria. Following the formal description of Dornraptor, Mickey Mortimer discussed...

features showed that it was outside the more derived (or "advanced") clade Coelurosauria. In 1996, Sereno and colleagues found Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus...

Megaraptora? Coelurosauria see below↓...

coelurosaur groups. Before the use of phylogenetic analyses, Coeluridae and Coelurosauria were taxonomic wastebaskets used for small theropods that did not belong...

therizinosaurs to group with oviraptorosaurs in a phylogenetic analysis of coelurosauria. In 1999, paleontologist Xing Xu and colleagues described a small, basal...

Megaraptora? Coelurosauria see below↓...