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- noun Any
dinosaur of thetaxonomic group Coelurosauria - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling such a creature
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Examples
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My own position is that there is every reason to believe that the ancestor of birds was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur.
Paul Nelson: Skepticism of the dino bird hypothesis explored - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Dr Zanno and Dr Makovicky found nearly two dozen anatomical features were statistically linked to direct evidence of plant eating among coelurosaurian dinosaurs, such as the loss of teeth or a long neck.
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That led to speculation that at least a few coelurosaurian theropods lived on a diet of plants.
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The distribution of integumentary types in coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs and inferred distribution of plumage patterning.
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Evidence for the existence of sternocostal movement in coelurosaurian theropods looks good, despite what Quick & Ruben (2009) say.
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New theropods - particularly bird-like coelurosaurs (like dromaeosaurs) and big non-coelurosaurian tetanurans (like allosauroids) - make the news all the time, but ornithischians consistently draw the short straw.
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