Saurornitholestinae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
| Clade: | †Eudromaeosauria |
| Subfamily: | †Saurornitholestinae Longrich & Currie, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues, 1978
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Saurornitholestinae is a subfamily of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. The saurornitholestines currently include three species: Atrociraptor marshalli, Bambiraptor feinbergorum, and Saurornitholestes langstoni. All are medium sized dromaeosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. The group was originally recognized by Longrich and Currie [1] as the sister taxon to a clade formed by the Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae. However, not all phylogenetic analyses recover this group.[2]
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References
- ^ Longrich, N.R., Currie, P.J., 2009. A microraptorine (Dinosauria-Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 5002-5008.
- ^ Turner, A.H., Makovicky, P.J., Norell, M.A., 2012. A review of dromeosaurid systematics and paravian phylogeny. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 371, 1-206.
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