Velociraptorinae

Eudromaeosauria is a subgroup of terrestrial dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs. They were small to large-sized predators that flourished during the Cretaceous Period. Eudromaeosaur fossils are known almost exclusively from the northern hemisphere.

Velociraptorinae

Jaren Wilkey User:Morosaurus millenii Kabacchi User:Thesupermat · CC BY 2.0 · 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
EudromaeosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 71 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 71 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 58 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 71 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 13 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences149.2 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

71 occurrences of Velociraptorinae 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

71 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

34 formations

Djadokhta — 44.25°N, 103.33°EDjadokhta — 43.66°N, 100.90°EDjadokhta — 44.22°N, 103.27°EDjadokhta — 44.13°N, 103.56°EDjadokhta — 44.00°N, 104.00°EDjadokhta — 44.15°N, 103.72°EDjadokhta — 44.09°N, 102.91°EMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WCedar Mountain — 39.05°N, 111.04°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WCedar Mountain — 38.83°N, 109.47°WKsar Metlili — 32.70°N, 3.22°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°EBaruungoyot — 43.66°N, 107.84°EBaruungoyot — 43.30°N, 99.60°EBaruungoyot — 43.49°N, 101.15°ERâul Mare — 45.57°N, 22.87°ESînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.92°EHell Creek — 47.05°N, 107.35°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WAdamantina — 21.60°S, 51.17°WAdamantina — 21.74°S, 51.03°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.52°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WWadi Milk — 16.70°N, 31.14°EAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°WMinhe — 41.50°N, 106.98°EOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EDabrazhin — 42.76°N, 68.54°ELa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WZouyun — 40.04°N, 112.42°EBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EBayan Mandahu — 41.79°N, 106.72°EVillalba de la Sierra — 39.95°N, 2.02°WCamarillas — 40.64°N, 0.86°W

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The named rock units Velociraptorinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Velociraptorinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

682 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Velociraptorinae, 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

53 references

Each of the 71 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. 41 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 Velociraptorinae

Credit
Jaren Wilkey User:Morosaurus millenii Kabacchi User:Thesupermat
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Velociraptorinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barsbold 1983