Eudromaeosauria

Eudromaeosauria is a group theropods belonging to the Order Deinonychosauria.

Eudromaeosauria was coined in 2009 by Phil Currie and Nicholas Long Rich regarding Hesperonychus. A cladistics analysis attempted to determine the relationships, and the outcome was that Microraptorinae was a basic subset of the Dromaeosauridae.

The Eudromaeosauria were defined as: the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Saurornitholestes langstoni, Deinonychus antirrhopus, Dromaeosaurus albertensis, and Velociraptor mongoliensis, and all its descendants.