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Taxon: Genus †Deinonychus Ostrom, 1969 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Eumaniraptora (Clade) Padian, Hutchinson & Holtz 1997 [Padian et al. 1999] Ref: M.P. Martyniuk, 2012: 177 (Padian et al., 1999).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Deinonychosauria (Clade) Colbert & Russell 1969 [Padian 1997] Ref: P.J. Currie & K. Padian (eds.), 1997: 166.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986 Ref: K. Padian, 2004: 210.
†Proceratosauridae (Clade) Rauhut et al. 2010 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 70) (Rauhut et al., 2010).

Current position

†Velociraptorinae (Subfamily) Barsbold, 1983 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5). [implicit]

Alternative positions

†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 126.
†Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998] Ref: M.A. Norell & P.J. Makovicky, 2004: table 10.1 (p. [198]).
†Velociraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1978 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Historical positions

†Velociraptorinae (Clade) Barsbold 1978 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
†Dromaeosauridae (Clade) Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998] Ref: M.A. Norell & P.J. Makovicky, 2004: table 10.1 (p. [198]).
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 126.
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 123.
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Dromaeosauridae (Family) Matthew & Brown, 1922 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
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