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	Dromaeosauridae: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Dromaeosaurids, "raptors" or members of the family Dromaeosauridae ("running lizards") are theropod (Any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs) dinosaur (Any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era) s.
		Dromaeosaurids are theropods (Any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs), and may be the sister taxon (additional info and facts about sister taxon) to Avialae (birds (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) and proto-birds).
		Dromaeosauridae is sometimes seen as synonymous to Deinonychosauria, when Troodontidae is placed in less derived maniraptora (Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds) ns.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dr/dromaeosauridae.htm (887 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First discovered by the palaeontologist Dr A. Waldman, the characteristics of the Dromaeosauridae are distinctive; among other things they were notoriously fast and small.
		Dromaeosauridae is a subgroup of Deinonychosauria, and includes such animals as Deinonychus, Dromaeosaurus, Velociraptor, Saurornitholestes, and Utahraptor.
		Dromaeosauridae is sometimes seen as synonymous to Deinonychosauria, when Troodontidae is placed in less derived maniraptorans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dromaeosauridae (784 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dromaeosauridae
		Families Dromaeosauridae Troodontidae The Deinonychosauria were a successful clade of theropods in the Cretaceous period.
		Dromaeosauridae: Numerous unnamed and indeterminate dromaeosaurids are known, including a large dromaeosaurid from the Cenomanian (LK) of Sudan, dromaeosaurids from the LK of Romania, several forms from Mongolia, possible Jurassic examples from Europe and North America, and additional American forms in the Cloverly and Judithian-Edmontonian-Lancian succession.
		Dromaeosauridae was a very successful group in the Cretaceous The Cretaceous is a geologic period that extends from about 65 to 135 million years before the present (see also geologic timescale).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dromaeosauridae (1159 words)

	"DC`s Pages/Dromaeosauridae" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		All of the Dromaeosauridae were obligatory bipeds which means that they always moved on two feet and were not able to use their forelimbs for locomotion.
		Thus one could describe the Dromaeosauridae as the "kung-fu-fighters" amongst the dinosaurs which undoubtedly required them to be able to perform fast, well coordinated movements of both their legs and arms.
		I found no literature on the sense of smell of Dromaeosauridae, but my guess would be that, as with other animals primarily relying on vision, their olfactory sense wasnt as well developed as it was/is in extinct allosaurids or extant crocodiles for example.
	scifi.pages.at /vong/drome.html (3249 words)

	Deinonychosauria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dromaeosauridae includes some of the most fearsome killers of the Cretaceous period: Deinonychus, Velociraptor, and Utahraptor.
		The largest known of these is possibly Utahraptor, and Microraptor was among the smallest (40 cm or 16 in?).
		By some definitions, Deinonychosauria and Dromaeosauridae are synonyms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deinonychosauria (129 words)

	dromaeosauridae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Dromaeosauridae includes the famous "raptors" of Jurassic Park, which apparently have gone bald through the insertion of frog DNA.
		Based on a partial subadult (approximately three-quarters adult size) skeleton originally referred to Velociraptor, the unfortunately-named Bambiraptor is another derived theropod, possibly close to the base of Dromaeosauridae, or maybe the same thing as Saurornitholestes.
		Denmark's first named classic dinosaur is a dromaeosaurid based on a tooth, thought to be close to Dromaeosaurus itself (hence the name).
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/dromaeosauridae.htm (1209 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Recently described Chinese "dromaeosaurids", such as Microraptor, Cryptovolans and Sinornithosaurus had modern pennaceous feathers and fully formed remiges or "flight feathers", leading to the question of whether these animals were capable of powered flight.
		This page was last modified 14:16, 8 May 2005.
		Dromaeosauridae, Characteristics, Relationship with birds, References and External links.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dromaeosaur (727 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - MindSharer Article Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Template:Taxobox end Among the dinosaurs, the Dromaeosaurids or Dromaeosauridae ("running lizards") were fast and agile dominant carnivores throughout the Cretaceous period.
		Recently described Chinese "dromaeosaurs", such as Microraptor, Cryptovolans and Sinornithosaurus had modern pennaceous feathers and fully formed remiges or "flight feathers", leading to the question of whether these animals were capable of powered flight.
		Velociraptor made a memorably chilling villain in the movie Jurassic Park, although it was enlarged far beyond its actual size.
	articles.mindsharer.com /html/Dromaeosauridae (640 words)

	DINOSAURS: Family Dromaeosauridae
		Megaraptor, its name does not deal with its body features but it does when the 15-inch rear leg claw is seen.
		Megaraptor is considered the largest of all the dromaeosauridae members, unless this dinosaur was discovered Utaraptor was considered the largest.
		Having a magnificent length of nearly 8 metres (26.6 feet) Megaraptor became the unbeatably one.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/DINOSAURS/19dromaeosauridae.htm (526 words)

	"DC`s Pages/Troodontidae" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Troodontid arms were not reduced, but didnt reach the relative length of their sister family Dromaeosauridae.
		They were propably not as agile as the Dromaeosauridae but instead were propably more adapted for speed, the arctometatarsalian condition, longer legs and slightly different femur to tighbone ratio being the main indicators for this assumption.
		As for Dromaeosauridae, I could find no information regarding the sense of smell of the Troodontidae, but as stated for Dromaeosauridae it was propably not very much developed as is the case with other animals that rely mainly on their optical sense.
	scifi.pages.at /vong/trooe.html (3029 words)

	Ultradarwinian: New Dromaeosaurid Paper (Old Content)
		This paper on dromaeosaur systematics, Senter, P., Barsbold, R., Britt, B. B., & Burnham, D. Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda).
		Deinonychosauria consists of an unnamed clade (Dromaeosauridae+ Microraptoria) + Sinovenator, which Senter et al.
		However, the clade Microraptoria + Dromaeosauridae retrieves high bootstrap support of 75, and very high Bremer support of 6.
	ultradarwinian.blogspot.com /2004/10/new-dromaeosaurid-paper-old-content.html (626 words)

	Paraves
		paynemili Calvo, Porfiri and Kellner, 2004 `--o †Dromaeosauridae Matthew and Brown, 1922 sensu Xu, Zhou and Wang, 2000 --o †Microraptoria Senter, Barsbold, Britt and Burnham, 2004 [Microraptorinae Burnham, Senter, Barsbold and Britt, 2004 sensu Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín, 2005]
		Allain, R. and Taquet, P., 2000: A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France.
		Senter, P., Barsbold, R., Britt, B. and Burnham, D. A., 2004: Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda).
	www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Archosauria/Theropoda/paraves.htm (1112 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - TheBestLinks.com - Dromaeosaurids, Birds, Cretaceous, Velociraptor, ...
		Dromaeosauridae - TheBestLinks.com - Dromaeosaurids, Birds, Cretaceous, Velociraptor,...
		Dromaeosauridae was a very successful group in the Cretaceous, existing for millions and millions of years.
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Dromaeosaurids.html (153 words)

	Troodontidae - the Troodon Dinosaurs
		Troodontidae has proven hard to classify, and can be linked by various characteristics with Spinosauridae, Dromaeosauridae, Oviraptorosauria, and Ornithomimosauria.
		In the recent past, they were often combined with the ornithomimosaurians into a taxon called Bullatosauria, meaning "inflated reptiles" (referring to a "swollen" bone in the braincase).
		With the discovery of Sinovenator, however, Troodontidae seems to mesh with Dromaeosauridae in Deinonychosauria, just as in the early 1980s.
	www.dinosaur-world.com /feathered_dinosaurs/troodontidae.htm (278 words)

	Troodontidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Since 1969, Troodontidae has typically been allied with Dromaeosauridae in a clade known as Deinonychosauria, but this was by no means a consensus.
		Holtz (1994) erected Bullatosauria, uniting Ornithomimosauria and Troodontidae into a holophyly clade on the basis of characters including, among others, an inflated parabasisphenoid and a long, low maxillary fenestra.
		New discoveries of primitive troodontids from China, however (Sinovenator, Mei) display strong similarities between Troodontidae, Dromaeosauridae, and the primitive bird Archaeopteryx.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Dinosaurs/Troodontidae.html (263 words)

	Dromaeosauridae Classification @ PLanet Dinosaur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Dromaeosauridae are Theropods, and are distant relatives to birds, which their unscientific term raptors comes from.
		A comparison could be made to wolves, which display both social behaviors.
		Dromaeosauridae were very successful in the Cretaceous, existing for millions and millions of years.
	www.planetdinosaur.com /dinosaurs/classification/dromaeosauridae.htm (118 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - the Dromaeosaur Dinosaurs
		They are commonly referred to as the "raptors," but this is not a technical term favored by scientists to describe these predatory dinosaurs as the scientific term refers to modern day birds of prey, which include the eagles and hawks.
		Dromaeosaurs are a small clade of theropod dinosaurs which exhibit some highly derived characteristics that they all share.
		Many believe that modern birds and Dromaeosaurs shared a common ancestor sometime in the Jurassic period; Dromaeosauridae is thus termed the sister group of the clade Aves (birds).
	www.dinosaur-world.com /feathered_dinosaurs/dromaeosauridae.htm (1781 words)

	Dromaeosauridae
		Dromaeosaurs constitute a small clade of theropod dinosaurs which exhibit some highly derived characteristics that they all share, especially modifications of the forelimb allowing for a flexible seizing function (which is thought to have been modified to create the bird "flight stroke").
		According to current thinking, birds are hypothesized to have shared a common ancestor with the dromaeosaurs sometime in the Jurassic period; Dromaeosauridae is thus termed the sister group of the clade Aves (which includes all birds).
		It may even be that the ancestry of birds lies within this group, which would make them dromaeosaurs too, but this is not at all established.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /diapsids/saurischia/dromaeosauridae.html (876 words)

	Qilong - Achillobator - Theropod Puzzle
		It seems peculiar that such highly pneumatic vertebrae, unlike dromaeosaurids or even Archaeopteryx, and such an odd maxilla are preserved in combination with such obvious dromaeosaurid tail and foot features, yet the pelvis is very primitive, even among maniraptorans.
		Apomorphies for Dromaeosauridae or dromaeosaurids with primitive birds are the short, tall second toe's second phalanx, the long prezygapophyses of the tail, and tall, quadratic ilium; the pubic peduncle is deep and long, with a distinct V-shaped notch in the ventral margin.
		Perle A.; Norell, M.A; and Clark, J.M. A new maniraptoran theropod -- Achillobator giganticus (Dromaeosauridae) -- from the Upper Cretaceous of Burkhant, Mongolia.
	qilong.8m.com /Achillobator.html (892 words)

	Dromaeosauridae - EvoWiki
		Dromaeosauridae (sensu Ostrom 1990) is an extinct family of intelligent dinosaurs known as the raptors.
		Autapomorphies of Dromaeosauridae as outlined by Ostrom in 1990 are no longer reliable in light of new fossil evidence.
		This page was last modified 20:20, 15 Jul 2005.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=Dromaeosauridae&redirect=no (66 words)

	maniraptora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It has three main groups: Deinonychosauria, including Dromaeosauridae, or "raptors", and the gracile Troodontidae; a possible group comprised of Oviraptorosauria (Caenagnathidae, Oviraptoridae, and ?Avimimidae), and Therizinosauria; and Avialae.
		Feathers or protofeathers are known for deinonychosaurians, basal oviraptorosaurians, basal therizinosaurians, and avialans (this one is easily verified), suggesting all maniraptorans possessed one or the other.
		Unenlagia and its allies may form a Gondwanan radiation of small flying or flying-like long-snouted basal dromies, while Microraptor and its allies are mostly tiny basal dromies from Asia, also with aerial pretensions.
	personal2.stthomas.edu /jstweet/maniraptora.htm (1901 words)

	Mesozoic Mosaic
		HWANG, S.H., M.A. NORELL, JI Q., and GAO K. New Specimens of Microraptor zhaoianus (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from Northeastern China.
		Although considered to be well known by everybody, especially after dinosaur movie planetary success, dromaeosauridae were known only form a few mainly incomplete fossils (the exceptions were some fine Mongolian specimens), so a lot of things about them were not entirely clear.
		Chinese paleontologists have recently found and described a fine dromaeosaurid fossil in Yixian Formation of China (Locality and horizon.
	www.geocities.com /dinosaurbero/dinosaur1.html (800 words)

	Re: paraphyletic Dromaeosauridae (was: first raptor)
		Ken Kinman wrote- > Actually I have long been contemplating whether a paraphyletic Family > Dromaeosauridae giving rise to Aves might be the best way to go.
		Dromaeosaurids (Dromaeosaurus + Velociraptor) haven't been paraphyletic in any of my recent analyses, with Dromaeosaurus, Deinonychus, Saurornitholestes and Velociraptor always forming a deinonychosaur clade, sometimes with Achillobator and Adasaurus as well.
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