Euavialae

Euavialans; Temporal range: ; Early Cretaceous–Present, 131–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil specimen of a juvenile Jixiangornis orientalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Clade:	Avialae
Clade:	Euavialae; Ji et al., 2002
Subgroups
	†Jixiangornis; Avebrevicauda;

Euavialae (meaning "true winged birds") is a group of theropods which includes all avialan species more closely related to modern birds than to the basal, long-tailed birds Archaeopteryx and Jeholornis.^[1]

Cladogram following the results of a phylogenetic study by Lefèvre et al., 2014:^[2]

Avialae

†Aurornis

†Eosinopteryx

†Anchiornis

†Archaeopteryx

†Xiaotingia

†Rahonavis

†Jeholornis

Euavialae

†Jixiangornis

Avebrevicauda

†Omnivoropterygiformes

Pygostylia

	†Confuciusornithiformes

	Ornithothoraces

References

^ Ji, Q.; Ji, S.; Zhang, H.; You, H.; Zhang, J.; Wang, L.; Yuan, C. & Ji, X. (2002): A new avialan bird - Jixiangornis orientalis gen. et sp. nov. - from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, NE China. Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences) 38(6): 723-736 [in Chinese with English abstract].
^ Lefèvre, U.; Hu, D.; Escuillié, F. O.; Dyke, G.; Godefroit, P. (2014). "A new long-tailed basal bird from the Lower Cretaceous of north-eastern China". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (3): 790–804. doi:10.1111/bij.12343.

[jixiangornis2002-1] Ji, Q.; Ji, S.; Zhang, H.; You, H.; Zhang, J.; Wang, L.; Yuan, C. & Ji, X. (2002): A new avialan bird - Jixiangornis orientalis gen. et sp. nov. - from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, NE China. Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences) 38(6): 723-736 [in Chinese with English abstract].

[curvipes2014-2] Lefèvre, U.; Hu, D.; Escuillié, F. O.; Dyke, G.; Godefroit, P. (2014). "A new long-tailed basal bird from the Lower Cretaceous of north-eastern China". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113 (3): 790–804. doi:10.1111/bij.12343.

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