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Ancestral taxa
Domain: Eukaryota /displayed  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Amorphea  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Obazoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Opisthokonta  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Holozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
(unranked): Filozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Choanozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Kingdom: Animalia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: ParaHoxozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Bilateria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Nephrozoa  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superphylum: Deuterostomia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Phylum: Chordata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Olfactores  [Taxonomy; edit]
Subphylum: Vertebrata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Eugnathostomata  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Teleostomi  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superclass: Tetrapoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Reptiliomorpha  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Amniota  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Sauropsida  [Taxonomy; edit]
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Clade: Archosauria /skip  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Avemetatarsalia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Ornithodira  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Dinosauromorpha  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Dinosauriformes  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Dracohors  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Dinosauria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Saurischia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Eusaurischia  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Theropoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Neotheropoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Averostra  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Tetanurae  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Orionides  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Avetheropoda  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Coelurosauria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Tyrannoraptora  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Maniraptoromorpha  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Neocoelurosauria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Maniraptoriformes  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Maniraptora  [Taxonomy; edit]
Clade: Alvarezsauria  [Taxonomy; edit]
Superfamily: Alvarezsauroidea  [Taxonomy; edit]
Genus: Xiyunykus  [Taxonomy; edit]


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Parent: Alvarezsauroidea [Taxonomy; edit]
Rank: genus (displays as Genus)
Link: Xiyunykus
Extinct: yes
Always displayed: yes (major rank)
Taxonomic references: Xing Xu, Jonah Choiniere, Qingwei Tan, Roger B.J. Benson, James Clark, Corwin Sullivan, Qi Zhao, Fenglu Han, Qingyu Ma, Yiming He, Shuo Wang, Hai Xing, Lin Tan,

Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution, Current Biology, 2018, , ISSN 0960-9822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.057. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218309874) Keywords: Early Cretaceous; transitional morphology; alvarezsaur; maniraptoran; theropod; biogeography; forelimb reduction; mosaic evolution

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