Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

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

Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

Defined by excluded taxon

Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

Generic clade

Avemetatarsalia (Clade) Benton 1999

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].

Current position

Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 2005: [8 Mar 2016]; Nesbitt, 2011: fig. 6.

Alternative positions

Avesuchia ([unranked]) Benton, 1999

Ref: M.J. Benton, 2004: fig. 1.8A. [out of scope (coherent)]

Historical positions

Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Src: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: figs. 6, 51.
Archosauria (Clade) Cope 1869 [Gauthier & Padian 1985], nom. cl. inval.	Src: P.C. Sereno, 2005: tables.php [8 Mar 2016].
Avesuchia ([unranked]) Benton, 1999	Src: M.J. Benton, 2004: 15 (fig. 1.8A). [out of scope (coherent)]

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present

Systema Naturae 2000

[1c;31o;201f;2135g;9609s]