Tetanurae

Translingual

From Ancient Greek τετανός (tetanós, “stiff”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).[1]

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Tetanurae

(family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida – clades; Diapsida – subclass; Archosauromorpha – infraclass; Archosauria – division; Ornithodira – subsection; Dinosauria – superorder; Saurischia – order; Theropoda - suborder; Neotheropoda, Averostra - clades

(clade): Orionides - clade; †Megalosauroidea (= Spinosauroidea) - superfamily in Orionides, Avetheropoda - clade in Orionides; †Carnosauria, Coelurosauria - clades in Avetheropoda; †Chilesaurus, †Sinosaurus, †Cryolophosaurus, †Chuandongocoelurus, †Monolophosaurus, †Cruxicheiros, †Kaijiangosaurus - unassigned genera in Tetanurae

Jaques Gauthier, "Saurischian Monophyly and the Origin of Birds", Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 8 (1986) .

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