Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72).

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

†Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Ornithomimus edmontonicus Sternberg, 1933a		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).
†Troodon formosus Leidy, 1856		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).
†Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).

Generic clade

†Tyrannosauroidea (Clade) Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Tyrannoraptora (Clade) Sereno 1999, nom. cl. inval.

Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: fig. S.2.

Alternative positions

Coelurosauria (Clade) Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
Maniraptoriformes (Clade) Holtz 1995 [Holtz 1996]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Historical positions

Coelurosauria (Clade) Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72), figs. 1, 4.
Coelurosauria (Clade) Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]	Src: L.E. Zanno, 2010: fig. 6.
Tyrannoraptora (Clade) Sereno 1999, nom. cl. inval.	Src: T.R. Holtz Jr., 2004: 111-136, table 5.1 (p. [112]), fig. 5.22; figs. S.2, 4.20.
Maniraptoriformes (Clade) Holtz 1995 [Holtz 1996]	Src: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), fig. 9A.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†2f;22g;18s