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Monophyletic taxon: Aves Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval. (bird)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Sauropsida - (Family) Compsognathidae

Phylogeny

Node-based clade Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

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

†Archaeopteryx (Genus) Meyer, 1861 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Neornithes (Clade) Gadow, 1893 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Generic clade

Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval. Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Current position

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Alternative positions

Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval. Ref: T. Rowe, 1988: fig. 1.
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: fig. 1.5.
Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Ref: Zanno, 2010: fig. 6

Historical positions

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Src: L.E. Zanno, 2010: fig. 6.
Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval. Src: N. Iwabe et al., 2005: fig. 1c.
Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Src: K. Padian, 2004: 210, figs. 11.8, 11.12. [implicit]
Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Src: L.M. Chiappe, 2001: [126] (fig. 1). [indirect]
Paraves (Clade) Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998] Src: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), figs. 9A, B.
Maniraptora (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Src: M.J. Benton, 1990: fig. 1.5.
Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval. Src: T. Rowe, 1988: fig. 1.
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