dromaeosaurine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from Dromaeosaurinae.
Noun
[edit]dromaeosaurine (plural dromaeosaurines)
- (paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.
- 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[1], volume 5, :
- 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.