Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade		Ref: P.J. Currie & K. Padian (eds.), 1997: 166.
Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para)		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 30.

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

†Deinonychus (Genus) Ostrom, 1969

Ref: P.J. Currie & K. Padian (eds.), 1997: 166.

Defined by excluded taxon

Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.J. Currie & K. Padian (eds.), 1997: 166 (as "birds"); 32.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986

Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 36.

Node-based clade

†Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
†Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 64) (modified from Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999]

Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: 23.

Alternative positions

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Historical positions

Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5), table (p. 64).
Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: 24.
Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), fig. 9A.