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Branch-based clade: †"Pterosauromorpha" Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Padian 1997], nom. cl. inval. (reptile)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: K. Padian, 1997: 617 ("stem-defined taxon").

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

†Pterosauria (Clade) Owen 1842 [Sereno 1991], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: K. Padian, 1997: 617 ("Sereno (1991) node-defined Pterosauria").

Defined by excluded taxon

Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: K. Padian, 1997: 617 ("dinosaurs"). [implicit]

Branch-based clade

†*Pterosauromorpha* (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Padian 1997], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 207 (sensu Sereno, 2005).
†*Pterosauromorpha* (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Padian 1997], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].
†*Pterosauromorpha* (Clade) Kuhn-Schnyder & Rieber 1984 [Padian 1997], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: K. Padian, 2004: 27.

Current position

Ornithodira (Clade) Gauthier 1986

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 207.

Alternative positions

*Archosauria* (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: K. Padian, 2004: 27.
*Avemetatarsalia* (Clade) Benton 1999 nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: [8 Mar 2016].

Historical positions

*Ornithodira* (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 207, fig. 52.
*Avemetatarsalia* (Clade) Benton 1999 nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

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