Family
Valid Extinct

Scansoriopterygidae

Czerkas and Yuan 2002

Scansoriopterygidae is an extinct family of climbing and gliding maniraptoran dinosaurs. Scansoriopterygids are known from five well-preserved fossils, representing four species, unearthed in the Tiaojishan Formation fossil beds of Liaoning and Hebei, China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial
Scansoriopterygidae
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エプデキシプテリクス。 また噛みそうな名前だけど、これもすごい。 この長い尾羽が特徴。 © ★Kumiko★ from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptora Unranked clade
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Scansoriopterygidae Family
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
3
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
1
Yixian
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
S. A. Czerkas and C. Yuan. 2002. An arboreal maniraptoran from northeastern China. Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight. The Dinosaur Museum Journal 1. The Dinosaur Museum, Blanding, UT
Bibliography (3)
M. Wang, J. K. O'Connor, and X. Xu, Z. Zhou. 2019. A new Jurassic scansoriopterygid and the loss of membranous wings in theropod dinosaurs. Nature 568 DOI ↗
X. Xu, X. Zheng, and C. Sullivan, X. Wang, L. Xing, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, J. K. O.’Connor, F. Zhang, Y. Pan. 2015. A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings. Nature 521(7550):70-73 DOI ↗
S. A. Czerkas and C. Yuan. 2002. An arboreal maniraptoran from northeastern China. Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight. The Dinosaur Museum Journal 1. The Dinosaur Museum, Blanding, UT