Unranked clade
Valid Extant

Maniraptoromorpha

Cau 2018

Coelurosauria from Greek κοῖλος + οὐρά + σαύρα + -ia, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards", is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Maniraptoromorpha
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Six exemplar coelurosaurs (clockwise from top left): Tyrannosaurus rex, Sinosauropteryx prima, Deinonychus antirrhopus, Archaeopteryx lithographica, an undescribed crested oviraptorid, and Passer domesticus. This is a collection of six different works which have been previously published on Wikimedia Commons (see source field below). © User:Zissoudisctrucker Sam / Olai Ose / Skjaervoy User:Daderot User:Vesta Wendy Kaveney User:Jolanta Dyr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptoromorpha Unranked clade
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Romualdo
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. Delcourt, O. N. Grillo, and C. Hendrickx, M. Kellermann, M. C. Langer. 2025. The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica. The Anatomical Record DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
D. Naish, D. M. Martill, and E. Frey. 2004. Ecology, systematics, and biogeographic relationships of dinosaurs, including a new theropod, from the Santana Formation (?Albian, Early Cretaceous) of Brazil. Historical Biology 2004:1-14 DOI ↗