DEINONYCHOSAURIA

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Saurischia

Cretaceous

North America and Asia

The Infraorder Deinonychosauria contains some of the most remarkable and fearsome meat-eating dinosaurs. There were three groups of the deinonychosaurs.

Family Deinocherirus

  • DEINOCHEIRUS

    THERIZINOSAURUS

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    • Family Dromaeosauridae

  • DEINONYCHUS

    DROMACOSAURUS

    ITEMIRUS ?

    NOASAURUS ?

    VELOCIRAPTOR

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    • Family Saurornithoididae

  • SAURORNITHOIDES

    STENONYCHOSAURUS

     

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