Avetheropoda

Avetheropods
Temporal range:
Middle JurassicPresent, Possible Early Jurassic record
Mounted Allosaurus fragilis skeleton cast, San Diego Natural History Museum
Kiwi with its egg (1913)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Orionides
Clade: Avetheropoda
Paul, 1988
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Neotetanurae
    Sereno et al., 1994
  • Orionides?
    Carrano, Benson & Sampson, 2012

Avetheropoda, or "bird theropods", is a clade that includes Carnosaurs and coelurosaurs to the exclusion of other Dinosaurs.

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