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Sinovenatorines Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Fossil specimen of Mei long | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Troodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Sinovenatorinae Shen et al., 2017 |
Type species | |
†Sinovenator changii | |
Genera | |
Sinovenatorinae is a subfamily of the extinct bird-like troodontid dinosaurs known exclusively from the Early Cretaceous of China. It includes the genus Sinovenator as well as several related genera.[1]