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Taxon: Genus †Iguanodon Mantell, 1825 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Ornithischia - (Family) Iguanodontidae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Hadrosauriformes (Clade) Sereno 1997 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Iguanodontidae (Clade) Cope 1869 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Hadrosauroidea (Clade) Sereno 1986 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 62).

Subsequent positions

Iguanodontoidea (Hyperfamily) Hay, 1902 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Current position

Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 208.

Alternative positions

Iguanodontoidea (Hyperfamily) Hay, 1902 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252. [new position]

Historical positions

Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 208, box 8.5.
Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 155.
Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 169.
Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 622).
Iguanodontoidea (Hyperfamily) Hay, 1902 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252. [new position]
Ornithopoda (Suborder) Marsh, 1871 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Iguanodontidae (Family) Cope, 1869 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 596.
Ornithoscelida (Subclass) (Huxley, 1870) Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †3s
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