Re: Dromaeosaurinae?

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Soto-Nuñez <soto@adinet.com.uy> wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> Can someone give me the reference for the subfamily "Dromaeosaurinae" (first
> author in proposing the name and year)?
> I would appreciate any help. Also some current definitions will be most
> helpful.

No definition, but Currie's chapter "Dromaeosauridae" in _The Encyclopedia of
Dinosaurs_ lists _Dromaeosaurus_ as "the only unquestionable dromaeosaurine
dromaeosaurid". _Adasaurus_ is listed as a possibility. _Deinonychus_,
_Saurornitholestes_, and _Velociraptor_ are listed as velociraptorine
dromaeosaurids. _Utahraptor_ and then-unnamed giant dromaeosaurids from Japan
(is this _Fukuiraptor_, now a basal ?carnosaur?) and Mongolia (_Achillobator_?)
are stated to be unassignable to either subtaxon of Dromaeosauridae due to
being poorly known.

The main difference betwen Velociraptorinae and Dromaeosaurinae is stated to be
the teeth. I believe this division has now come under doubt, and _Deinonychus_
may in fact be dromaeosaurine. Someone else here can probably say more.

Paul 1988 (PDW) uses Dromaeosaurinae as a subfamily of Archaeopterygidae,
sister group to the other subfamily, Archaeopteryginae. Its content is the same
as the Dromaeosauridae of most workers.

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