Concise hierarchy

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

Current position

†Abelisauria (Clade) Novas 1992

Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).

Alternative positions

†Abelisauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte 1991 [Holtz 1994]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Ceratosauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Historical positions

†Abelisauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte 1991 [Holtz 1994]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60), figs. 1, 4.
†Abelisauria (Clade) Novas 1992	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
†Ceratosauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b). [implicit]

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

†Abelisaurus comahuensis Bonaparte & Novas, 1985		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).
†Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).
†Indosaurus matleyi Huene & Matley, 1933		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).
†Indosuchus raptorius Huene & Matley, 1933		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).
†Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Depéret, 1896)		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).
†Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei Martinez, Gimenez, Rodriguez & Bochatey, 1987		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Novas, 1997b).

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Neoceratosauria (Clade) Novas 1991 [Holtz 1994]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68) (Holtz, 1994).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Abelisauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte 1991 [Holtz 1994]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Holtz, 1994).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Ceratosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Rauhut 2004]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 63) (Rauhut, 2004b) ("abelisaurids").

Branch-based clade

†Abelisauridae (Clade) Bonaparte & Novas 1985 [Novas 1997]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Wilson et al., 2003).

Node-based clade

†Abelisauridae (Clade) Bonaparte & Novas 1985 [Novas 1997]

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).