Eudromaeosauria
unranked clade · Longrich and Currie 2009 · accepted · extant
47 descendant taxa · 437 fossil sites · 77 formations · 20 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Paleogene
154.8–66 million years ago
Found where
20 countries
77 rock formations
Fossil record
437 sites
63 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
Did you know
Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 89 million years, from 154.8 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Eudromaeosauria was named in 2009 (Longrich and Currie 2009) — 17 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 20 countries and 77 named rock formations.
- 63 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 47 named taxa, including 24 species.
Keep going
Where next
Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).