Paraves
unranked clade · Sereno 1997 · accepted · extant
6,433 descendant taxa · 16,655 fossil sites · 738 formations · 151 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Quaternary
184.2–0 million years ago
Found where
151 countries
738 rock formations
Fossil record
16,655 sites
222 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.
- Paraves was named in 1997 (Sereno 1997) — 29 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 151 countries and 738 named rock formations.
- 222 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 6,433 named taxa, including 3,731 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).