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| Machairasaurus Temporal range: Campanian,
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| Forearm and hand in dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) views, showing the elongate claws | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Oviraptoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Heyuanninae |
| Genus: | †Machairasaurus Longrich, Currie & Dong, 2010 |
| Species: | †M. leptonychus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Machairasaurus leptonychus Longrich, Currie & Dong, 2010
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Machairasaurus is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur which was found in the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China, dating to the late Cretaceous period.[1]
- ^ Nicholas R. Longrich; Philip J. Currie; Dong Zhi-Ming (2010). "A new oviraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia". Palaeontology. 53 (5): 945–960. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00968.x.