Concise hierarchy

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

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Metriacanthosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 251.

Current position

†Metriacanthosauridae (Family) Paul, 1988

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292).

Alternative positions

†Ceratosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1884	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 131.
†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Sinraptoridae (Clade) Currie & Zhao 1993 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [74]).

Historical positions

†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Metriacanthosauridae (Family) Paul, 1988	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292).
†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
†Sinraptoridae (Clade) Currie & Zhao 1993 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [74]).
†Ceratosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1884	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 131.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1s