Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 36. [implicit]

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

Ornithurae (Clade) Haeckel 1866 [Gauthier 1986] {Chiappe 1991}

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 36.

Defined by excluded taxon

†Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997]

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 36.

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Chuniaoae (Clade) Ji et al. 1998

Ref: M.P. Martyniuk, 2012: 176 (Ji et al., 1998).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Coelurosauria (Clade) Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]		Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 26 (as "birds"); 12.
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 35 (as "birds"); 12.
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 23 (as "birds"); 12.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]		Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 18 (as "birds"); 12.

Branch-based clade

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: K. Padian, 2004: 210.
Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (Maryanska et al., 2002).

Current position

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).

Alternative positions

Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999]

Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: 23.

Historical positions

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61), figs. 1, 5.
Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999]	Ref: K. Padian, 2004: 210-231, table 11.1 (p. [211]); figs. S.2, 4.20.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	31o;202f;2151g;9617s;7150ss;1v; ‡2o;7f;57g;261s;62ss; †27o;91f;359g;173s;3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]