New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the lower cretaceous of Utah, and the evolution of the Dromaeosaurid tail. by Phil Senter, James I Kirkland, Donald D DeBlieux, Scott Madsen, Natalie Toth

“…--Aptian) of Utah has yielded a rich theropod fauna, including the coelurosaur Nedcolbertia justinhofmanni, the therizinosauroid Falcarius utahensis, the troodontid Geminiraptor suarezarum, and the dromaeosaurid Utahraptor ostrommaysorum. Recent excavation has uncovered three new dromaeosaurid specimens. …”
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Correction: New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail

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Correction: New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail. by Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux, Scott Madsen, Natalie Toth

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Iridescent plumage in a juvenile dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur by ANGUS D. CROUDACE, CAIZHI SHEN, JUNCHANG LÜ, STEPHEN L. BRUSATTE, JAKOB VINTHER

“…Here we reconstruct the feather colouration of an approximately one-year-old individual of the Early Cretaceous dromaeosaurid theropod Wulong bohaiensis, which to our knowledge is the first unequivocal juvenile paravian for which aspects of the original colour has been predicted. …”
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The furculae of the dromaeosaurid dinosaur Dakotaraptor steini are trionychid turtle entoplastra by Victoria M. Arbour, Lindsay E. Zanno, Derek W. Larson, David C. Evans, Hans-Dieter Sues

“…Dakotaraptor steini is a recently described dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. …”
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The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska. by Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Anthony R Fiorillo, Ronald S Tykoski, Paul J McCarthy, Peter P Flaig, Dori L Contreras

“…Multivariate comparison of theropod teeth morphospace by means of principal component analysis reveals an overlap between this dentary and Saurornitholestinae dromaeosaurid morphospace, a result supported by phylogenetic analyses. …”
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Morphological disparity and structural performance of the dromaeosaurid skull informs ecology and evolutionary history by Yuen Ting Tse, Case Vincent Miller, Michael Pittman

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Testing the function of dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) ‘sickle claws’ through musculoskeletal modelling and optimization by Peter J. Bishop

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The body plan of Halszkaraptor escuilliei (Dinosauria, Theropoda) is not a transitional form along the evolution of dromaeosaurid hypercarnivory by Andrea Cau

“…Recently, these evolutionary and ecological interpretations have been challenged, and Halszkaraptor has been claimed to be a transitional form between non-dromaeosaurid maniraptoriforms and other dromaeosaurids: following that reevaluation, its peculiar body plan would represent the retention of several maniraptoran plesiomorphies, lost among other dromaeosaurids, and not an adaptation to a novel ecology. …”
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The first dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation of Nei Mongol, China by Michael Pittman, Rui Pei, Qingwei Tan, Xing Xu

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The phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird? by Andrea Cau, Tom Brougham, Darren Naish

“…The placement among dromaeosaurids resulted in a suboptimal alternative that cannot be rejected based on the data to hand. …”
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Skull of a dromaeosaurid dinosaur Shri devi from the Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert suggests convergence to the North American forms by ŁUKASZ CZEPIŃSKI

“…Numerous dromaeosaurid taxa recovered from the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Gobi Desert raise questions over niche partitioning among closely related species. …”
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Postcranial skeletal anatomy of the holotype and referred specimens of Buitreraptor gonzalezorum Makovicky, Apesteguía and Agnolín 2005 (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae), from the Late... by Federico A. Gianechini, Peter J. Makovicky, Sebastián Apesteguía, Ignacio Cerda

“…This taxon was recovered as an unenlagiine dromaeosaurid in several recent phylogenetic studies and is the best represented Gondwanan dromaeosaurid discovered to date. …”
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First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. by Barrett, P, Benson, R, Rich, T, Vickers-Rich, P

“…The combined presence of spinosaurid, neovenatorid, tyrannosauroid and dromaeosaurid theropods in the Australian Cretaceous undermines previous suggestions that the dinosaur fauna of this region was either largely endemic or predominantly 'Gondwanan' in composition. …”

Intestinal preservation in a birdlike dinosaur supports conservatism in digestive canal evolution among theropods by Xuri Wang, Andrea Cau, Bin Guo, Feimin Ma, Gele Qing, Yichuan Liu

“…Abstract Dromaeosaurids were bird-like dinosaurs with a predatory ecology known to forage on fish, mammals and other dinosaurs. …”
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Morphological variations within the ontogeny of Deinonychus antirrhopus (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae). by William L Parsons, Kristen M Parsons

“…One secondary goal of this research is to compare the known pattern of variable, informative, ontogenetic characters in MCZ 8791 to a similar pattern of morphological characters in the sub-adult dromaeosaurid specimen Bambiraptor feinbergorum, AMNH FR: 30556. …”
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A short-armed troodontid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and its implications for troodontid evolution. by Xing Xu, Qingwei Tan, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Dong Xiao

“…As a derived taxon, L. tani has a dromaeosaurid-like pedal digit II, and this species also possesses a humerus that is proportionally much shorter and more robust than those of most other troodontids.…”
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Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae). by Matt A White, Phil R Bell, Alex G Cook, David G Barnes, Travis R Tischler, Brant J Bassam, David A Elliott

“…The antebrachium possessed a range of motion that was close to dromaeosaurids; however, the unguals were capable of hyper-extension, in particular manual phalanx I-2, which is a primitive range of motion characteristic seen in allosaurids and Dilophosaurus. …”
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Rare evidence for ‘gnawing-like’ behavior in a small-bodied theropod dinosaur by Caleb M. Brown, Darren H. Tanke, David W.E. Hone

“…The tracemaker cannot be definitively identified, but was likely a dromaeosaurid or very young tyrannosaurid. Tooth marks on at least four other Dinosaur Park Formation hadrosaur pedal unguals are reported, but the overall frequency of occurrence in unguals (< 1%) is much lower than that reported for other bones. …”
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A new small deinonychosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagônia, Argentina by Juan D. Porfiri, Jorge O. Calvo, Domenica dos Santos

“…The pedal construction resembles, that of Troodontid or basal Dromaeosaurids. Nevertheless, up to now, we considered Pamparaptor a peculiar Patagônian Dromaeosaurid with troodontid-like pes.…”
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