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Clade: †Megalosauroidea Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

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

†Spinosaurus (Genus) Stromer, 1915 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 67) (Sereno, 1998: as "Spinosauroidea").
†Torvosaurus (Genus) Galton & Jensen, 1979 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 67) (Sereno, 1998: as "Spinosauroidea").

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012 Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 251.

Branch-based clade

†Megalosauroidea (Clade) Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 67) (modified from Holtz et al., 2004).

Current position

Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).

Historical positions

Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4), table (p. 67).
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).
Orionides (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012 Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
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