Dromaeosaurinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae. The earliest dromaeosaurine is Utahraptor, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period...

like Dromaeosaurus and Velociraptor. Utahraptor is in the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae, which contained the biggest of the dromaeosaurs in the form of Utahraptor...

Formation. Dromaeosaurus is the type genus of both Dromaeosauridae and Dromaeosaurinae, which include many genera with similar characteristics to Dromaeosaurus...

William Diller Matthew and Barnum Brown, who erected it as a subfamily (Dromaeosaurinae) of the family Deinodontidae in 1922, containing only the new genus...

rather have suggested it is a paraphyletic grade which gave rise to the Dromaeosaurinae. When first described in 1924, Velociraptor was placed in the family...

Utahraptor were recovered as close relatives of Dromaeosaurus in the Dromaeosaurinae. However, other studies place the two in the Velociraptorinae, such...

Group. This study currently classifies Deinonychus as a member of the Dromaeosaurinae. A 2021 study of the dromaeosaurid Kansaignathus recovered Deinonychus...

by Longrich and Currie as the sister taxon to a clade formed by the Dromaeosaurinae and Velociraptorinae. However, not all phylogenetic analyses recover...

grouping, the inclusion of Saurornitholestes is still uncertain. The Dromaeosaurinae are usually found to consist of medium- to giant-sized species, with...

Velociraptorinae Dromaeosaurinae...