Maniraptoriformes

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.

Maniraptoriformes

User:Zissoudisctrucker Sam / Olai Ose / Skjaervoy User:Daderot User:Vesta Wendy Kaveney User:Jolanta Dyr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoelurosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 91 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 91 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 91 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 64 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 91 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 10 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 12 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 12 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences199.5 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

91 occurrences of Maniraptoriformes on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

91 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

42 formations

Baynshire — 43.50°N, 107.76°EBaynshire — 43.14°N, 107.52°EBaynshire — 44.35°N, 109.35°EBaynshire — 44.45°N, 107.38°EBaynshire — 43.46°N, 107.49°EBaynshire — 43.45°N, 107.40°ENemegt — 43.49°N, 101.28°ENemegt — 43.87°N, 100.01°ENemegt — 43.76°N, 99.90°ENemegt — 43.58°N, 107.69°ENemegt — 43.48°N, 100.36°ENemegt — 44.07°N, 102.67°ENemegt — 43.47°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.32°N, 99.83°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.46°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 64.38°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°ECedar Mountain — 38.91°N, 110.10°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WZhirkindek — 46.22°N, 64.15°EBaruungoyot — 43.32°N, 99.83°EBaruungoyot — 43.47°N, 99.83°EIren Dabasu — 43.73°N, 112.02°EIren Dabasu — 43.84°N, 113.72°EYixian — 40.81°N, 119.80°EYixian — 37.43°N, 122.06°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.87°EJobu — 32.74°N, 130.84°EJobu — 32.75°N, 130.85°EGaogou — 32.81°N, 110.72°EZhonggou — 41.73°N, 97.65°EZhonggou — 39.93°N, 98.50°EKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EIlek — 55.97°N, 88.09°EIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EEl Molino — 18.10°S, 65.72°WLa Posa — 42.27°N, 0.73°EBayangobi — 41.17°N, 106.08°ELufeng — 24.17°N, 102.40°EMoreno Hill — 35.07°N, 108.85°WSundays River — 33.42°S, 25.44°EMurtoi — 51.20°N, 106.27°EYuanpu — 23.48°N, 114.86°EVillar del Arzobispo — 40.67°N, 0.88°W

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The named rock units Maniraptoriformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Maniraptoriformes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Maniraptoriformes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Maniraptoriformes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

64 references

Each of the 91 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 52 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Maniraptoriformes

Credit
User:Zissoudisctrucker Sam / Olai Ose / Skjaervoy User:Daderot User:Vesta Wendy Kaveney User:Jolanta Dyr
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Maniraptoriformes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoelurosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holtz and Padian 1995