Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Megalosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 250.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Afrovenatorinae (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012		Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 251.
†Piatnitzkysauridae (Clade) Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012		Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: 251.

Current position

†Megalosaurinae (Subfamily) Fitzinger, 1843

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292).

Alternative positions

†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 128.
†Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Megalosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).

Historical positions

†Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Megalosaurinae (Subfamily) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
†Megalosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]), 95 (fig. 4.20).
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 128.
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 595.
Ornithoscelida (Subclass) (Huxley, 1870)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 1 Jan 2019	[; †1s]