Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Padian & Hutchinson, 1997).

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

†Allosaurus (Genus) Marsh, 1877		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Padian & Hutchinson, 1997).
†Sinraptor (Genus) Currie & Zhao, 1993		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Padian & Hutchinson, 1997).

Branch-based clade

†Allosauroidea (Clade) Currie & Zhao 1993 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Allosauroidea (Clade) Currie & Zhao 1993 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60) (Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Avetheropoda (Clade) Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).

Alternative positions

†Carnosauria ([unranked]) Huene, 1920	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [74]).
Neotetanurae (Clade) Sereno et al. 1994	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Historical positions

Avetheropoda (Clade) Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60), figs. 1, 4.
Avetheropoda (Clade) Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
†Carnosauria ([unranked]) Huene, 1920	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [74]).
Neotetanurae (Clade) Sereno et al. 1994	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†2g;1s