Coelurosauria
unranked clade · (Huene 1914) · accepted · extant
7,764 descendant taxa · 19,494 fossil sites · 921 formations · 153 countries
Lived when
Triassic – Quaternary
237–0 million years ago
Found where
153 countries
921 rock formations
Fossil record
19,494 sites
667 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 237 million years, from 237 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Coelurosauria was named in 1914 ((Huene 1914)) — 112 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 153 countries and 921 named rock formations.
- 667 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 7,764 named taxa, including 4,396 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).