Concise hierarchy

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

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Proceratosauridae (Clade) Rauhut et al. 2010

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 70) (Rauhut et al., 2010).

Current position

†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871

Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 119; (Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5)).

Alternative positions

†Coeluridae (Family) Marsh, 1881	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 193.
†Compsognathidae (Clade) Cope 1871 [Holtz et al. 2004]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Historical positions

†Compsognathidae (Clade) Cope 1871 [Holtz et al. 2004]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Coelurosauria (Clade) Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A. [rough position]
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: L.E. Zanno, 2010: fig. 6. [inferred name]
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [76]), 95 (fig. 4.20).
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 115.
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 119.
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Compsognathidae (Family) Cope, 1871	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
Ornithoscelida (Subclass) (Huxley, 1870)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 2 Jan 2019	[; †1s]
2004	T.R. Holtz Jr. et al.	[; †1s]