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A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution

Cau, A. (2024)

Citation

Cau, A. (2024). A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(1): 1-19. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.08

Cited by genera

  • Aorun

    Recovered Aorun as an early-diverging allosauroid, reading its coelurosaurian signal as a juvenile-ontogeny artifact.

  • Bahariasaurus

    Recovered Bahariasaurus within Ceratosauria as an abelisauroid.

  • Corythoraptor

    Coded Corythoraptor with the immature Banji holotype as one unit, regarding Corythoraptor as a junior synonym of Banji.

  • Dubreuillosaurus

    Argued Dubreuillosaurus is a junior synonym of Poekilopleuron, its holotype a juvenile of that taxon.

  • Epidexipteryx

    Considered Epidexipteryx a junior synonym of Epidendrosaurus.

  • Erectopus

    Recovered Erectopus as an unstable taxon of uncertain position.

  • Jianchangosaurus

    Coded the Jianchangosaurus holotype in the Beipiaosaurus unit as an immature individual, regarding Jianchangosaurus as a junior synonym.

  • Juravenator

    Places Juravenator among the allosauroids.

  • Nedcolbertia

    Recovered Nedcolbertia among early-diverging allosauroids.

  • Poekilopleuron

    Treated Poekilopleuron as a megalosauroid and the senior synonym of Dubreuillosaurus.

  • Scipionyx

    Recovered Scipionyx as an immature spinosaurid within Megalosauroidea.

  • Sciurumimus

    Recovered Sciurumimus within Megalosauroidea.

  • Tanycolagreus

    Recovered Tanycolagreus within Tyrannosauroidea.

  • Xunmenglong

    Recovered Xunmenglong among the earliest-diverging branches of Tetanurae, outside Coelurosauria.

Cited by clades

  • Anchiornithidae

    Recovered the anchiornithids as a paraphyletic grade of avialans leading to Scansoriopterygidae rather than as a clade; no support values are reported.

  • Compsognathidae

    Argued Compsognathidae is an artifact of coding immature specimens, with its members scattered across Tetanurae.

  • Megaraptora

    Recovered Megaraptora within Tyrannosauroidea; no support values are reported for the placement.

  • Ornithomimosauria

    Recovered Ornithomimosauria as the sister group of Therizinosauroidea, both outside Maniraptora.

  • Scansoriopterygidae

    Recovered Scansoriopterygidae within Avialae, crownward of a paraphyletic anchiornithid grade; no support values are reported.

  • Therizinosauria

    Recovered Therizinosauria as the sister group of Ornithomimosauria and outside Maniraptora.