Editing Microraptor (section)

==Classification==
[[File:Dromaeosaurs.png|thumb|Size of ''Microraptor'' (1) compared with other [[Dromaeosauridae|dromaeosaurs]]]]
[[File:Shandong Microraptor.jpg|thumb|Specimen in the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature]]
The cladogram below follows a 2012 analysis by paleontologists Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux, Scott Madsen and Natalie Toth.<ref name=Yurgovuchia>{{Cite journal | last1 = Senter | first1 = P. | last2 = Kirkland | first2 = J. I. | last3 = Deblieux | first3 = D. D. | last4 = Madsen | first4 = S. | last5 = Toth | first5 = N. | editor1-last = Dodson | editor1-first = Peter | title = New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0036790 | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 7 | issue = 5 | pages = e36790 | year = 2012 | pmid = 22615813| pmc = 3352940| bibcode = 2012PLoSO...736790S | doi-access = free }}</ref>

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|label1=[[Dromaeosauridae]]
|1={{clade
   |1=''[[Xiaotingia]]'' [[File:Xiaotingia .jpg|80px]]
   |2={{clade
      |1=[[Unenlagiinae]] [[File:Austroraptor Restoration (flipped).png|80px]]
      |2={{clade
         |1=''[[Shanag]]'' [[File:Shanag.jpg|80px]]
         |2={{clade
            |label1=[[Eudromaeosauria]]
            |1={{clade
               |1=[[Saurornitholestinae]] 
               |2={{clade
                  |1=[[Velociraptorinae]] [[File:Fred Wierum Velociraptor.png|80px]]
                  |2=[[Dromaeosaurinae]] [[File:Deinonychus ewilloughby (flipped).png|80px]] }} }}
            |label2=[[Microraptoria]]
            |2={{clade
               |1=''[[Tianyuraptor]]'' 
               |2={{clade
                  |1=''[[Hesperonychus]]'' 
                  |2={{clade
                     |1={{clade
                        |1='''''Microraptor sp.''''' 
                        |2={{clade
                           |1='''''Microraptor gui''''' [[File:Fred Wierum Microraptor.png|80px]]
                           |2='''''Microraptor zhaoianus''''' }} }}
                     |2={{clade
                        |1=''[[Cryptovolans]]''
                        |2=''[[Graciliraptor]]'' [[File:Graciliraptor.jpg|80px]]
                        |3=''[[Sinornithosaurus]]'' [[File:Sinornithosaurus.jpg|80px]] }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}

In a 2024 paper which reported the smallest known juvenile specimen of ''Microraptor'', Wang and Pei included [[microraptoria]]ns and [[eudromaeosauria]]ns within a new clade Serraraptoria.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wang |first1=R. |last2=Pei |first2=R. |year=2024 |title=The smallest known specimen of ''Microraptor'' (Dinosauria: Dromaeosauridae) from the Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2024.2385604 }}</ref>