Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

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

†Coelophysis (Genus) Cope, 1889

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Carnotaurus (Genus) Bonaparte, 1985

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Branch-based clade

†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 63) (Sereno, 2005).

Current position

Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: R.N. Martínez & C. Apaldetti, 2017: 490.

Alternative positions

†Ceratosauria (Clade) Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [48]).
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [48]) [Benton, 2005: 397]. [implicit]

Historical positions

Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: R.N. Martínez & C. Apaldetti, 2017: 490.
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 3 (fig. 1), table (p. 63).
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 291), fig. 8A.
Neotheropoda (Clade) Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: fig. 6.
†Ceratosauria (Clade) Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]	Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [48]), fig. 3.12A.
†Ceratosauria (Clade) Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present

Systema Naturae 2000

[; †1f;10g]