Reptilia - Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Full reference: N. R. Longrich and P. J. Currie. 2009. A microraptorine (Dinosauria–Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Parent taxon: Dromaeosauridae according to S. E. Jasinski et al. 2020
See also Longrich and Currie 2009
Sister taxa: Balaur, Bambiraptor, Daurlong, Dromaeosauroides, Halszkaraptorinae, Imperobator, Kuru, Luanchuanraptor, Microraptorinae, Nuthetes, Pyroraptor, Richardoestesia, Shri, Tianyuraptor, Unenlagiinae, Variraptor, Velociraptorichnus, Wulong, Zhenyuanlong
Subtaxa: Achillobator Adasaurus Deinonychus Dromaeosaurinae Saurornitholestinae Utahraptor Vectiraptor Velociraptorinae
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2 collections), Canada (97: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (5), France (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (5), Mexico (6), Mongolia (15), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (6), Sudan (1), Tajikistan (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (161: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (6)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (2)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), Germany (1), Portugal (1)
Total: 327 collections including 381 occurrences