Alvarezsauridae

References

1. Wikipedia, "Alvarezsauridae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: i.e. not the more familiar physicist Luis Alvarez, who proposed that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by an impact event; Hutchinson, "The first known alvarezsaurid (Theropoda: Aves) from North America", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1998, p. 447–450 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
2. Wikipedia, "Alvarezsauridae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perle, "Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia", Nature, 15 April 1993, p. 623–626 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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4. Wikipedia, "Alvarezsauridae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Makovicky, "Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade", Nature, 2026-04-30, p. 1240–1244; Averianov, Alexander O.; Lopatin, Alexey V.; Atuchin, Andrey A. (2025-12-23). "Forelimb structure and function in a new Late Cretaceous parvicursorine theropod (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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8. Wikipedia, "Alvarezsauridae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bonaparte, "Los vertebrados fósiles de la formación Río Colorado, de la ciudad de Neuquén y cercanías, Cretácico Superior, Argentina", Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia". Paleontolog (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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