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

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...

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

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...

of this article, a 'bird' is considered to be any member of the clade Avialae. Some dinosaur groups which may or may not be true birds are listed below...

Guili; Liu, Yichuan; Chiappe, Luis M. (2024-09-24). "A new gansuid bird (Avialae, Euornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of...

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)...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

metatarsals into a tarsometatarsus. The degree of fusion is typical for the Avialae, the evolutionary branch of the birds and their direct relatives. The position...

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...

Miyata, K., Wang, M., & Zhou, Z. (2019). An unusual bird (Theropoda, Avialae) from the Early Cretaceous of Japan suggests complex evolutionary history...

If the latter classification is used then the larger group is termed Avialae. Currently, the relationship between non-avian dinosaurs, Archaeopteryx...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

dinosaur. Described in 1996, it was the first dinosaur taxon outside of Avialae (birds and their immediate relatives) to be found with evidence of feathers...

(Microraptor zhaoianus + Sinornithosaurus millenii + V. mongoliensis) Avialae (Archaeopteryx + Neornithes) (Iguanodon/Triceratops > Cetiosaurus/Tyrannosaurus)...