 | It has been suggested that this article be merged into Eudromaeosauria. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024. |
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| Reconstructed skull of Saurornitholestes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
| Clade: | †Eudromaeosauria |
| Subfamily: | †Saurornitholestinae Longrich & Currie, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| †Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues, 1978
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Saurornitholestinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae. The saurornitholestines currently include monotypic genera Atrociraptor marshalli, Saurornitholestes langstoni, and possibly Bambiraptor feinbergi and Acheroraptor temertyorum. All are medium-sized dromaeosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. The group was originally recognized by Longrich and Currie as the sister taxon to a clade formed by the Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae.[3] However, not all phylogenetic analyses recover this group and/or with the same proposed genera.[4][5][6]
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