Caudipteridae
| Caudipterids | |
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| Replica of a Caudipteryx zoui skeleton
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | †Oviraptorosauria |
| Family: | †Caudipteridae Zhou & Wang, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| † Caudipteryx zoui Ji et al., 1998
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Caudipteridae is an extinct
Caenagnathus collinsi".[2]
The first caudipterid described was Caudipteryx zoui (named in 1998),Similicaudipteryx yixianensis was described and classified as a caudipterid.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b He, T., Wang, X.-L., and Zhou, Z.-H. (2008). "A new genus and species of caudipterid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China. The anatomical characteristics Caudipterids were highly uniform for most oviraptorians. of " Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 46(3): 178-189.
- ISSN 1567-2158.
- ^ Zhou, Z., and Wang, X. (2000). "A new species of Caudipteryx from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, northeast China." Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 38(2): 113–130. PDF fulltext Archived 2007-10-07 at the Wayback Machine