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Dromaeosaurus

Osteichthyes - Dromaeosauridae

Taxonomy
Dromaeosaurus was named by Matthew and Brown (1922). It was considered monophyletic by Currie (2000).

It was assigned to Dinodontidae by Huene (1927); to Megalosaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Coelurosauria by Kuhn (1939); to Compsognathidae by Stromer (1934), Tatarinov (1964); to Theropoda by Ostrom (1965); to Deinodontidae by Russell (1930), Russell (1935), Wolberg (1980); to Coeluridae by Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Romer (1966), Steel (1970), Coulton (1976), Dodson (1983); to Microraptorinae by Ezcurra (2009); to Dromaeosauridae by Colbert and Russell (1969), Ostrom (1969), Kurzanov (1976), Sues (1977), Sues (1978), Molnar (1978), Molnar (1980), Santafé et al. (1982), Thulborn (1984), Russell (1984), Breithaupt (1985), Clemens (1986), Gauthier (1986), Currie (1987), Carroll (1988), Antunes and Sigogneau (1992), Currie (1995), Osmólska (1996), Eberth (1997), Currie (1997), Sereno (1997), Le Loeuff and Buffetaut (1998), Eberth et al. (2001), Peng et al. (2001), Sankey et al. (2002), Rauhut (2003), Currie and Varricchio (2004), Norell and Makovicky (2004), Kiernan and Schwimmer (2004), Smith (2007), Turner et al. (2007), Longrich (2008), Godefroit et al. (2008), Godefroit et al. (2009), Gianechini et al. (2011), Porfiri et al. (2011), Brown and Druckenmiller (2011), Pei et al. (2014), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Torices et al. (2015), van der Reest and Currie (2017), Gianechini et al. (2017); and to Dromaeosaurinae by Matthew and Brown (1922), Hay (1930), Paul (1988), Currie et al. (1990), Currie (1992), Sereno (1998), Zinke (1998), Barsbold and Osmólska (1999), Currie (2000), Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2001), Senter et al. (2004), Burnham et al. (2004), Longrich and Currie (2009), Larson and Currie (2013), Sues and Averianov (2014), Williamson and Brusatte (2014), Jasinski et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Dromaeosaurus Matthew and Brown p. 378
1927Dromaeosaurus Huene p. 260
1928Dromaeosaurus Nopcsa p. 183
1930Dromaeosaurus Hay p. 180
1930Dromaeosaurus Russell p. 142
1934Dromaeosaurus Stromer p. 80
1935Dromaeosaurus Russell p. 117
1939Dromaeosaurus Kuhn p. 49
1956Dromaeosaurus Romer p. 612
1963Dromaeosaurus Parsch p. 6
1964Dromaeosaurus Tatarinov p. 533
1965Dromaeosaurus Ostrom p. 39
1966Dromaeosaurus Romer p. 369
1969Dromaeosaurus Colbert and Russell p. 43
1969Dromaeosaurus Ostrom p. 148
1970Dromaeosaurus Steel p. 15
1976Dromaeosaurus Coulton p. 177
1976Dromaeosaurus Kurzanov p. 361
1977Dromaeosaurus Sues p. 591
1978Dromaeosaurus Molnar p. 80
1978Dromaeosaurus Sues pp. 399-400
1980Dromaeosaurus Molnar p. 137
1980Dromaeosaurus Wolberg p. 50
1982Dromaeosaurus Santafé et al. p. 82
1983Dromaeosaurus Dodson p. 95
1984Dromaeosaurus Russell pp. 24-25
1984Dromaeosaurus Thulborn p. 132
1985Dromaeosaurus Breithaupt p. 165
1986Dromaeosaurus Clemens p. 79
1986Dromaeosaurus Gauthier p. 11
1987Dromaeosaurus Currie p. 54
1988Dromaeosaurus Carroll
1988Dromaeosaurus Paul p. 360
1990Dromaeosaurus Currie et al. p. 108
1992Dromaeosaurus Antunes and Sigogneau p. 55
1992Dromaeosaurus Currie p. 241
1995Dromaeosaurus Currie
1996Dromaeosaurus Osmólska p. 27
1997Dromaeosaurus Currie p. 194
1997Dromaeosaurus Eberth p. 201
1997Dromaeosaurus Sereno p. 458
1998Dromaeosaurus Le Loeuff and Buffetaut p. 110
1998Dromaeosaurus Sereno p. 65
1998Dromaeosaurus Zinke p. 181
1999Dromaeosaurus Barsbold and Osmólska p. 214
2000Dromaeosaurus Currie p. 435
2001Dromaeosaurus Barco and Ruiz-Omeñaca pp. 242-243
2001Dromaeosaurus Eberth et al. p. 56
2001Dromaeosaurus Peng et al. p. 36
2002Dromaeosaurus Sankey et al. p. 752
2003Dromaeosaurus Rauhut p. 37
2004Dromaeosaurus Burnham et al. p. 42A
2004Dromaeosaurus Currie and Varricchio pp. 126-127 fig. 4.8
2004Dromaeosaurus Kiernan and Schwimmer p. 89
2004Dromaeosaurus Norell and Makovicky p. 198
2004Dromaeosaurus Senter et al. p. 2 fig. 2
2007Dromaeosaurus Smith p. 104
2007Dromaeosaurus Turner et al. pp. 9-10 fig. 5
2008Dromaeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 432
2008Dromaeosaurus Longrich p. 994
2009Dromaeosaurus Ezcurra p. 1342
2009Dromaeosaurus Godefroit et al.
2009Dromaeosaurus Longrich and Currie fig. 3
2011Dromaeosaurus Brown and Druckenmiller p. 1343
2011Dromaeosaurus Gianechini et al. p. 284
2011Dromaeosaurus Porfiri et al. p. 113
2013Dromaeosaurus Larson and Currie p. 9
2014Dromaeosaurus Hendrickx and Mateus
2014Dromaeosaurus Pei et al.
2014Dromaeosaurus Sues and Averianov p. 239
2014Dromaeosaurus Williamson and Brusatte p. 9
2015Dromaeosaurus Torices et al. p. 619
2017Dromaeosaurus Gianechini et al. p. 9
2017Dromaeosaurus van der Reest and Currie p. 933
2020Dromaeosaurus Jasinski et al. p. 6 fig. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
infraorderDeinonychosauria
familyDromaeosauridae
—Eudromaeosauria
subfamilyDromaeosaurinae
genusDromaeosaurus

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. †Dromaeosaurus Matthew and Brown 1922
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†Dromaeosaurus albertensis Matthew and Brown 1922
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available