Meanings
noundromaeosaurine (plural dromaeosaurines)
plural dromaeosaurines
- biologyA bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.
Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.
2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI
Origin
Back-formation from Dromaeosaurinae.
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