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Monophyletic taxon: Megalosauridae Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66).

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

Megalosaurus bucklandii Mantell, 1827 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).

Defined by excluded taxon

Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).
Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer, 1915 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).

Generic clade

Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Holtz et al., 2004).

Current position

Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).

Alternative positions

Spinosauroidea (Clade) Olshevsky 1995 Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).

Historical positions

Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4), table (p. 66).
Megalosauroidea (Clade) Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1).
Megalosauria (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain et al. 2012] Src: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
Spinosauroidea (Clade) Olshevsky 1995 Src: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).
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