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Monophyletic taxon: Avialae Gauthier 1986 (bird)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61).

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

Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (Maryanska et al., 2002).

Defined by excluded taxon

Dromaeosaurus albertensis Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (Maryanska et al., 2002).
Troodon formosus Leidy, 1856 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61) (Maryanska et al., 2002).

Generic clade

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] Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 61), figs. 1, 5.
Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999] Src: 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]
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