Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Aves - (Order) Archaeopterygiformes - (Family) Archaeopterygidae

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

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

†Archaeopteryx lithographica H. von Meyer, 1861

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Defined by excluded taxon

Neornithes (Clade) Gadow, 1893

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Ornithurae (Clade) Haeckel 1866 [Gauthier 1986] {Chiappe 1991}		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65).
Ornithurae (Clade) Haeckel 1866 [Gauthier 1986]		Ref: J. Gauthier, 1986: 13.

Original entries

†Archaeopteryx lithographica H. von Meyer, 1861
†Archaeopteryx siemensii Dames, 1897

Current position

†Archaeopterygidae (Family) Huxley, 1871

Ref: K. Padian, 2004: table 11.1 (p. [211]).

Alternative positions

†Archaeornithes (Subclass) Gadow, 1893	Ref: A.S. Romer & T.S. Parsons, 1986
Aves (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: J.K. O'Connor et al., 2010: fig. 9.
Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: L.M. Chiappe, 2001: [126] (fig. 1).
Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).

Historical positions

Avialae (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 13 (fig. 5).
Aves (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: J.K. O'Connor et al., 2010: fig. 9.
†Archaeopterygidae (Family) Huxley, 1871	Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: box 9.2. [implicit]
†Archaeopterygidae (Family) Huxley, 1871	Ref: K. Padian, 2004: table 11.1 (p. [211]), fig. 11.8; fig. S.2.
Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: L.M. Chiappe, 2001: [126] (fig. 1).
Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 65), fig. 9B.
†Archaeopterygidae (Family) Huxley, 1871	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 121.
†Archaeornithes (Subclass) Gadow, 1893	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 16, 19. [rough position]
†Archaeornithes (Subclass) Gadow, 1893	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 967. [rough position]
†Archaeornithes (Subclass) Gadow, 1893	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
†Sauriurae (Subclass) Haeckel, 1866	Ref: L.B. Halstead, 1974: 172. [rough position]
†Archaeopterygidae (Family) Huxley, 1871	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1963: 189.
Saururæ (Order)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 453. [rough position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[; †2s]
2004	K. Padian	[; †2s]
1979	T.I. Storer et al.	†1s
1963	P. Brodkorb	[; †2s]