Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61).

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

†Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (modified from Holtz et al., 2004).
Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (modified from Holtz et al., 2004).

Generic clade

Avetheropoda (Clade) Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (modified from Holtz et al., 2004).

Current position

Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).

Alternative positions

Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986

Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: 95 (fig. 4.20).

Historical positions

Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4), table (p. 61).
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).
Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012	Src: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Src: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [74]), 95 (fig. 4.20); fig. S.2.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	31o;202f;2151g;9617s;7150ss;1v; ‡2o;7f;57g;261s;62ss; †28o;111f;533g;287s;3ss;2
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]