Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

†Coelophysis (Genus) Cope, 1889		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
Neornithes (Clade) Gadow, 1893		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Node-based clade

Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 213 (sensu Sereno, 2005).
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68) (Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]

Ref: F.E. Novas et al., 2021: 3.

Alternative positions

Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]

Ref: R.N. Martínez & C. Apaldetti, 2017: 490.

Historical positions

Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: R.N. Martínez & C. Apaldetti, 2017: 490, 502 (fig. 11).
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68), figs. 1, 4.
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 213.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 15 (fig. 1.8A); figs. 3.12A, 13.18.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

31o;202f;2151g;9617s;7150ss;1v; ‡2o;7f;57g;261s;62ss; †28o;119f;609g;335s;3ss;3