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Taxon: Family †Dromaeosauridae Matthew & Brown, 1922 (dinosaur)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Matthew & Brown, 1922) J.H. Ostrom, 1969
Original name:  Matthew & Brown, 1922.
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Ostrom, J.H. 1969. Postilla, no. 128: 2.
Isonym (name, rank & spelling):  Colbert, E.H. & Russell, D.A. 1969. Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 2380: 43 ("here designated").
Description/Diagnosis in English:  Ostrom, J.H. 1969. Postilla, no. 128: 2-3.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: †Dromaeosaurinae (Subfamily) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5). [inferred]
Type: †Dromaeosaurus (Genus) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621); [<11 Oct 2025]. [inferred]

Variants

Subsequent clade name: †Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998] Ref: J.H. Ostrom, 1969: 2. [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: †Rahonavidae (Family) Livezey & Zusi, 2007
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