Dromaeosaurinae

Eudromaeosauria is a subgroup of terrestrial dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs. They were small to large-sized predators that flourished during the Cretaceous Period. Eudromaeosaur fossils are known almost exclusively from the northern hemisphere.

Dromaeosaurinae

Jaren Wilkey User:Morosaurus millenii Kabacchi User:Thesupermat · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EudromaeosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 107 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 107 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 107 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 107 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 18 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 12 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 12 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 12 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 12 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 13 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 5 occurrences145.06 Mya72.2 Mya154 Mya64 Mya

107 occurrences of Dromaeosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

107 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

35 formations

Milk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.48°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.52°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.63°WDinosaur Park — 50.60°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.19°N, 110.73°WOldman — 50.47°N, 110.39°WOldman — 50.82°N, 111.58°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WOldman — 49.28°N, 112.20°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.23°N, 103.21°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 46.46°N, 109.41°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 46.44°N, 109.83°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WBostobe — 46.57°N, 63.87°EBostobe — 45.95°N, 64.65°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.54°N, 112.88°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WCedar Mountain — 39.05°N, 111.04°WCedar Mountain — 38.73°N, 109.59°WPrince Creek — 69.83°N, 151.52°WPrince Creek — 70.07°N, 151.58°WPrince Creek — 70.09°N, 151.54°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.50°N, 101.75°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.67°N, 101.30°WUdurchukan — 49.08°N, 130.86°EUdurchukan — 50.27°N, 127.48°EWapiti — 55.06°N, 119.11°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WNenjiang — 44.32°N, 124.68°ENenjiang — 42.22°N, 127.32°ETwin Mountains — 31.97°N, 98.48°WMugher Mudstone — 9.45°N, 38.62°EDenver — 39.84°N, 105.04°WNanushuk — 69.15°N, 153.25°WFrenchman — 49.52°N, 108.82°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°ELa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Dromaeosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dromaeosaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dromaeosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

812 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Dromaeosaurinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

51 references

Each of the 107 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 39 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dromaeosaurinae

Credit
Jaren Wilkey User:Morosaurus millenii Kabacchi User:Thesupermat
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEudromaeosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew and Brown 1922