A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria

Citation

Sereno, P. C. (1998). A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210: 41-83. doi:10.1127/njgpa/210/1998/41

Cited by genera

• Procompsognathus

  Treated Procompsognathus as a defining taxon of Coelophysidae.

Cited by clades

• Ankylosaurinae

  Defined Ankylosaurinae as all ankylosaurs closer to Ankylosaurus than to Shamosaurus or Minmi, listing it as "Ankylosaurinae (Brown 1908) Nopcsa 1918".

• Deinonychosauria

  Gave the node-based definition, with Troodon and Velociraptor as reference taxa.

• Dicraeosauridae

  Provided the stem-based phylogenetic definition of Dicraeosauridae.

• Diplodocidae

  Provided the stem-based phylogenetic definition of Diplodocidae.

• Massospondylidae

  Gave the original stem-based definition of Massospondylidae, with Plateosaurus as the external specifier.

• Neotheropoda

  Defined Neotheropoda as the node of Coelophysis and modern birds.

• Pachycephalosauridae

  Defined Pachycephalosaurinae as all pachycephalosaurids closer to Pachycephalosaurus than to Stegoceras.

• Pachycephalosaurinae

  Defined Pachycephalosaurinae as pachycephalosaurids closer to Pachycephalosaurus than to Stegoceras, crediting the name to Sternberg (1945).

• Saltasauridae

  Defined Saltasauridae as the node of Opisthocoelicaudia and Saltasaurus, with Saltasaurinae and Opisthocoelicaudiinae as its two stems.

• Saurischia

  Defined Saurischia as all dinosaurs closer to Neornithes than to Triceratops.