Avialae

Avialae (portmanteau: 'avium alae') est cladus dinosauriorum volantium qui aves, sola dinosauria viva, comprehendit. Plerumque definitur omnia dinosauria theropoda avibus hodiernis artius quam deinonychosauriis conecta, quamquam definitiones aliae aliquando adhibentur.

Archaeopteryx lithographica fossilis. Exemplar Eystettense^(de) (Museum Iurassicum Eystettense)

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Sauropsida
Superordo : Dinosauria
Ordo : Saurischia
Subordo : Theropoda
Infraordo : Pennaraptora
Zoosectio : Paraves
Avialae
Gauthier, 1986

Palaeontologia

165–0 m.a.: Iurassicum superius > Recens

Subdivisiones: Subgreges

archaeopteryx lithographica, e membro Solnhofensi in Bavaria temporis Iurassici exeuntis inventa, est prima avialarum nota cui fortasse erat facultas volandi per se.^[2] Nonnullae autem avialae ex Iurassico exeunti in Formatione Tiaojishan in Sinis recentius inventae sunt, quae abhinc annorum 160 milliones vixerunt.^[3]^[4]

Notae

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Cau, A.; Beyrand, V.; Voeten, D.; Fernandez, V.; Tafforeau, P.; Stein, K.; Barsbold, R.; Tsogtbaatar, K. et al (2017). "Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs". Nature 552 (7685): 395–399
↑ Alonso, P. D.; Milner, A. C.; Ketcham, R. A.; Cookson, M. J.; Rowe, T. B. (2004). "The avian nature of the brain and inner ear of Archaeopteryx". Nature 430 (7000): 666–669 Supplementary info
↑ Hu, D.; Hou, L.; Zhang, L. & Xu, X. (2009). "A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus". Nature 461 (7264): 640–643
↑ Liu Y.-Q.; Kuang H.-W.; Jiang X.-J.; Peng N.; Xu H.; Sun H.-Y. (2012). "Timing of the earliest known feathered dinosaurs and transitional pterosaurs older than the Jehol Biota". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 323–325: 1–12

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