Maniraptora
unranked clade · Gauthier 1986 · accepted · extant
7,398 descendant taxa · 18,314 fossil sites · 811 formations · 152 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Quaternary
184.2–0 million years ago
Found where
152 countries
811 rock formations
Fossil record
18,314 sites
293 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 184 million years, from 184.2 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.
- Maniraptora was named in 1986 (Gauthier 1986) — 40 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 152 countries and 811 named rock formations.
- 293 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 7,398 named taxa, including 4,221 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).