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Branch-based clade: Troodontidae Gilmore 1924 [Varricchio 1997] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749. [implicit]

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

Borogovia (Genus) Osmólska, 1987 Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749.
Saurornithoides (Genus) Osborn, 1924 Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749.
Sinornithoides (Genus) Russell & Dong, 1993 Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749.
Troodon (Genus) Leidy, 1856, nom. dub. Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749.

Defined by excluded taxon

Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval. Ref: M.P. Martyniuk, 2012: 177 ("'other well defined groups' presumably include eudromaeosaurs and crown avians") (Varricchio, 1997).
Ornithomimidae (Clade) Marsh 1890 [Sereno 1998] Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749 (as "ornithomimids").
Oviraptorosauria (Clade) Barsbold 1976 [Barsbold 1997] Ref: D.J. Varricchio, 1997: 749 (as "oviraptorisaurs, or other well-defined taxa").

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Therizinosauria (Clade) Russell 1997 [Russell 1997] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 71) (Russell, 1997) (as "troodontids").

Branch-based clade

Troodontidae (Clade) Gilmore 1924 [Varricchio 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Troodontidae (Clade) Gilmore 1924 [Varricchio 1997] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 72) (Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).

Alternative positions

Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Historical positions

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1), table (p. 72).
Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997] Ref: P.J. Makovicky & M.A. Norell, 2004: 184-195, table 9.1 (p. [185]); 22, 24, figs. S.2, 4.20.
Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), fig. 9A.
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