Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Coelophysidae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Ceratosauria (Clade) Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Coelophysinae (Clade) Nopcsa 1928		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Ceratosauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Procompsognathinae (Clade) Nopcsa 1923		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Coelophysidae (Family) Nopcsa, 1928

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291).

Alternative positions

†Coelophysidae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [48]).

Historical positions

†Coelophysidae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Coelophysidae (Family) Nopcsa, 1928	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: C.F. Kammerer et al., 2012(2011): 282 (fig. 4). [rough position]
†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 213, figs. 6, 52.
†Coelophysidae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [48]).
†Coelophysidae (Family) Nopcsa, 1928	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 114.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†2s;1
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 31 Dec 2018	[; †2s]