Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Node-based clade		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 64).
Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para)		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 30.

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

†Troodon formosus Leidy, 1856		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 64) (modified from Sereno, 2005).
†Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 64) (modified from Sereno, 2005).

Qualified by excluded taxon

Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 64) (modified from Sereno, 2005).

Generic clade

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