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Microraptor
Taxonomy
Microraptor was named by Xu et al. (2000).
It was assigned to Microraptoria by Senter et al. (2004), Burnham et al. (2004); to Dromaeosauria by Chatterjee and Templin (2007); to Dromaeosauridae by Xu et al. (2000), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Currie (2003), Rauhut (2003), Xu and Wang (2004), Norell and Makovicky (2004), Norell and Hwang (2004), Ji and Ji (2007), Ji et al. (2007), Turner et al. (2007), Godefroit et al. (2008), Xing et al. (2009), Amiot et al. (2010), Gianechini et al. (2011), Prieto-Marquez et al. (2012), Pei et al. (2014), Gianechini et al. (2017); and to Microraptorinae by Longrich and Currie (2009), Knoll and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2009), Gong et al. (2012), Han et al. (2014), Williamson and Brusatte (2014), Jasinski et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Microraptoria by Senter et al. (2004), Burnham et al. (2004); to Dromaeosauria by Chatterjee and Templin (2007); to Dromaeosauridae by Xu et al. (2000), Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo (2003), Currie (2003), Rauhut (2003), Xu and Wang (2004), Norell and Makovicky (2004), Norell and Hwang (2004), Ji and Ji (2007), Ji et al. (2007), Turner et al. (2007), Godefroit et al. (2008), Xing et al. (2009), Amiot et al. (2010), Gianechini et al. (2011), Prieto-Marquez et al. (2012), Pei et al. (2014), Gianechini et al. (2017); and to Microraptorinae by Longrich and Currie (2009), Knoll and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2009), Gong et al. (2012), Han et al. (2014), Williamson and Brusatte (2014), Jasinski et al. (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Archaeoraptor Sloan p. 98 |
| 2000 | Archaeoraptor Olson p. 3 |
| 2000 | Microraptor Xu et al. p. 705 |
| 2002 | Cryptovolans Czerkas et al. p. 101 figs. 1-20 |
| 2003 | Microraptor Currie p. 56 |
| 2003 | Microraptor Rauhut p. 37 |
| 2003 | Cryptovolans Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 292 |
| 2003 | Microraptor Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 292 |
| 2004 | Microraptor Burnham et al. p. 42A |
| 2004 | Microraptor Norell and Hwang p. 8 |
| 2004 | Microraptor Norell and Makovicky p. 198 |
| 2004 | Microraptor Senter et al. p. 2 fig. 2 |
| 2004 | Microraptor Xu and Wang p. 117 |
| 2007 | Microraptor Chatterjee and Templin p. 1577 fig. 4 |
| 2007 | Microraptor Ji et al. p. 13 |
| 2007 | Microraptor Turner et al. pp. 9-10 fig. 5 |
| 2008 | Microraptor Godefroit et al. p. 432 |
| 2009 | Microraptor Knoll and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 610 |
| 2009 | Microraptor Longrich and Currie fig. 3 |
| 2009 | Microraptor Xing et al. p. 668 |
| 2010 | Cryptovolans Amiot et al. p. 351 |
| 2010 | Microraptor Amiot et al. p. 351 |
| 2011 | Microraptor Gianechini et al. p. 283 |
| 2012 | Microraptor Gong et al. p. 82 |
| 2012 | Microraptor Prieto-Marquez et al. p. 127 |
| 2014 | Microraptor Han et al. pp. 7-8 fig. 5 |
| 2014 | Microraptor Pei et al. |
| 2014 | Microraptor Williamson and Brusatte p. 10 |
| 2017 | Microraptor Gianechini et al. p. 9 |
| 2020 | Microraptor Jasinski et al. p. 6 fig. 3 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Microraptor Xu et al. 2000
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†Microraptor gui Xu et al. 2003
†Microraptor hanqingi Gong et al. 2012
†Microraptor zhaoianus Xu et al. 2000
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Invalid names: Archaeoraptor liaoningensis Sloan 1999 [objective synonym], Cryptovolans pauli Czerkas et al. 2002 [synonym]
Invalid names: Archaeoraptor Sloan 1999 [objective synonym], Cryptovolans Czerkas et al. 2002 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Holtz et al. 2000 | |||||
Age range: Aptian or 121.40000 to 113.20000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | China (Liaoning) | Cryptovolans sp., Dromaeosauridae indet. (79518) M. gui (55536) M. hanqingi (132487) M. sp. (79941 105772) M. zhaoianus (55426 118207) M. zhaoianus, Archaeoraptor liaoningensis (55708) |