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Monotypic taxon: Genus †Metriacanthosaurus Walker, 1964 (dinosaur)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Metriacanthosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 251.

Current position

†Metriacanthosaurinae (Subfamily) Paul, 1988

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 250.

Alternative positions

†*Megalosauridae* (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 128.
†*Metriacanthosauridae* (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
*Tetanurae* (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [73]).

Historical positions

†*Metriacanthosauridae* (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†*Metriacanthosaurinae* (Subfamily) Paul, 1988	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
*Tetanurae* (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [73]).
†*Megalosauridae* (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 128.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 31 Dec 2018	[; †1s]
2004	T.R. Holtz Jr. et al.	[; †1s]

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