Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 23. [implicit]

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

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 23 (as "birds"); 12.

Defined by excluded taxon

†Ceratosauria (Clade) Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 23.

Branch-based clade

Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 71) (Allain et al., 2012).

Current position

Averostra (Clade) Paul 2002

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

Alternative positions

Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).

Historical positions

Averostra (Clade) Paul 2002	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 71), figs. 1, 4.
Averostra (Clade) Paul 2002	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 213.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: 71-110, table 4.1 (p. [72]), 95 (fig. 4.20); table 5.1 (p. [112]), figs. S.2, 3.12A.
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: fig. 1.5.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	31o;202f;2151g;9617s;7150ss;1v; ‡2o;7f;57g;261s;62ss; †28o;114f;563g;317s;3ss;2
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]