Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210 (Padian & May, 1993). [implicit]

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

Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210 (Padian & May, 1993: "birds").
†Triceratops (Genus) Marsh, 1889		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210 (Padian & May, 1993).

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 208 (Novas, 1992).
Dinosauromorpha (Clade) Benton 1985 [Sereno 1991], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1991: 23 ("inc. Aves").

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Pterosauromorpha (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Padian 1997]

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 207 ("dinosaurs") (Padian, 1997).

Node-based clade

Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210 (sensu Sereno, 2005).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

Current position

Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210.

Alternative positions

Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.
Archosauria (Superorder) Cope, 1869	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 621.
Ornithodira (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: fig. 1.1.

Historical positions

Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17). [rough position] [indirect]
Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: C.F. Kammerer et al., 2012(2011): 282 (fig. 4).
Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 210, fig. 52.
Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].
Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: R.V. Hill, 2005: fig. 5.
Dinosauriformes (Clade) Novas 1992, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: 7, 16-18, fig. 1.8A; table 2.1 (p. [26]).
Ornithodira (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: figs. 1.1, 1.5.
Archosauria (Superorder) Cope, 1869	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 621.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]
1988	R.L. Carroll: 622	[; †2o;44f]