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Clade: Megalosauridae Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Node-based clade Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Allain, 2002).

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

Afrovenator (Genus) Sereno, Wilson, Larsson, Dutheil & Sues, 1994 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Allain, 2002).
Poekilopleuron valesdunensis Allain, 2002 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Allain, 2002) ("Poekilopleuron? valesdunensis").
Torvosaurus (Genus) Galton & Jensen, 1979 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Allain, 2002).

Branch-based clade

Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).

Current position

Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).

Alternative positions

Spinosauroidea (Clade) Olshevsky 1995 Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).

Historical positions

Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4), table (p. 66).
Megalosauroidea (Clade) Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).
Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
Spinosauroidea (Clade) Olshevsky 1995 Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).
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