Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Family) Dromaeosauridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997]

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
†Ve1ociraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1978		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Dromaeosaurinae (Clade) Matthew & Brown 1922 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
†Therizinosauroidea (Clade) Russell & Dong 1993 [Zhang et al. 2001]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 71) (Zhang et al., 2001).
†Troodontidae (Clade) Gilmore 1924 [Varricchio 1997]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Current position

†Ve1ociraptorinae (Subfamily)

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5). [implicit]

Alternative positions

†Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: M.A. Norell & P.J. Makovicky, 2004: table 10.1 (p. 199).
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 126.
†Ve1ociraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1978	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Historical positions

†Ve1ociraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1978	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: C.F. Kammerer et al., 2012(2011): 282 (fig. 4). [rough position]
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: fig. 52.
†Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: M.A. Norell & P.J. Makovicky, 2004: table 10.1 (p. 199).
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 126.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1s;1