Haplocheirus Choiniere et al. 2010 (coelurosaur)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: J. N. Choiniere, X. Xu, J. M. Clark, C. A. Forster, Y. Guo and F. Han. 2010. A basal alvarezsauroid theropod from the early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Science 327(5965):571-574

Parent taxon: Alvarezsauroidea according to K. Kubo et al. 2023

See also Agnolin et al. 2012, Choiniere et al. 2014, Choiniere et al. 2010 and Nesbitt et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Alvarezsauridae, Bannykus, Bonapartenykus, Nemegtonykus, Patagonykinae, Patagonykus, Qiupanykus, Tugulusaurus, Xiyunykus

Subtaxa: Haplocheirus sollers

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Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Wucaiwan area Sino-American expedition - orange mudstone beds (Jurassic of China)

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