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  • noun Plural form of coelurosaur.

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  • In fact, the majority of feathered dinosaurs found so far belong to the group called coelurosaurs, which also counts the film's Tyrannosaurus and Gallimimus as members.

    That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011

  • Lindsay Zanno and Peter Makovicky of the Field Museum visited theropod fossil collections all over the world, zeroing in on a subgroup of feathered theropods known as coelurosaurs that arose 145 million years ago.

    latimes.com - News 2010

  • Art imitates life, and the idea that raptors and other coelurosaurs were bird-like animals covered with feathers is often taken as another case of paleontologists mucking about with "our" dinosaurs.

    That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011

  • Compsognathids a paraphyletic assemblage of basal coelurosaurs?

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The Yixian Formation is the now famous unit that has produced all those little coelurosaurs with feathers and other integumentary structures preserved, and Dilong is no exception.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Basal tyrannosauroids and other basal coelurosaurs that possess specialised premaxillary teeth that might have been used in preening/grooming of quill-like integumentary structures.

    The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

  • Basal tyrannosauroids and other basal coelurosaurs that possess specialised premaxillary teeth that might have been used in preening/grooming of quill-like integumentary structures.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Dilong has proved to be a sort of Rosetta stone for me, allowing several previously enigmatic Lower Cretaceous coelurosaurs to be reinterpreted as additional basal tyrannosauroids.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • If so-called compsognathids – all of them relatively small, ecologically and morphologically generalized, long-limbed, long-tailed theropods that hunt small vertebrate prey – are not a clade but are actually scattered about the base of the coelurosaur family tree, this likely indicates that this ecotype was the ancestral one for coelurosaurs.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Compsognathids are, like tyrannosauroids, basal coelurosaurs, but they retained small body size throughout their history (so far as we know).

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

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