Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

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

Neornithes (Clade) Gadow, 1893

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Oviraptor (Genus) Osborn, 1924

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Generic clade

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Current position

Pennaraptora (Clade) Foth et al. 2014

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Alternative positions

Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: Zanno, 2010: fig. 6
Penaraptora (Clade) Hendrickx, Hartman & Mateus 2015, nom. null.	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1). [misplaced]

Historical positions

Pennaraptora (Clade) Foth et al. 2014	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5), table (p. 70).
Penaraptora (Clade) Hendrickx, Hartman & Mateus 2015, nom. null.	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1). [misplaced]
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Src: L.E. Zanno, 2010: fig. 6.
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Src: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: 22, fig. S.2.
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Src: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), fig. 9A.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	31o;202f;2151g;9617s;7150ss;1v; ‡2o;7f;57g;261s;62ss; †27o;93f;400g;183s;3ss;1
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]