Cryptovolans Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Cryptovolans pauli is a 3-foot long feathered dinosaur recently discovered in the Jiufotang site, China. Cryptovolans was a dromaeosaurid related to the Velociraptor.Cryptovolans is remarkable for being the first known dinosaur to have flight-capable feathers on its legs as well as on its arms. It also had feathers on the end of its long tail, and perhaps furry 'proto-feathers' on the rest of its body.
It is believed that Cryptovolans may have been able to fly better than Archaeopteryx, the animal usually referred to as the earliest known bird. Possessing a keel and ribs with an uncinate process, Cryptovolans has modern bird features which are absent in Archaeopteryx. The fact that this flight-capable animal is also very clearly a dromaeosaur suggests that the Dromaeosauridae might actually be a basal bird group, and that later (larger) species such as Deinonychus were actually secondarily flightless. Current evidence for this theory is inconclusive, and some of the modern bird-like features in Crytovolans may have evolved independently. Regardless of whether dromaeosaurs are a sister group to birds or actual members of Aves, both groups are part of the Maniraptora suborder and are ultimately theropod dinosaurs.
Many think that Cryptovolans is a junior synonym of Microraptor.
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