Unenlagiines Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 94–70 Ma |
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Unenlagiine skeletons to scale | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | Saurischia |
Suborder: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Dromaeosauridae |
Subfamily: |
†Unenlagiinae Bonaparte, 1999 |
Type species | |
Unenlagia comahuensis Novas & Puerta, 1997 |
Unenlagiinae is a subfamily of Dromaeosauridae. Unenlagiine dinosaurs are one of the most basal lineages of dromaeosaurids. Unenlagiines are known from South America, Antarctica and Madagascar.
Among unenlagiines is one of the largest dromaeosaurids, Austroraptor (5.8 metres), as well as some of the smallest, Buitreraptor and Rahonavis.