Neotheropoda

Neotheropods
Temporal range:
Late Triassic–Present, 220–0 Ma
Reconstructed skeletons of Coelophysis bauri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Saurischia
Clade: Eusaurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Clade: Neotheropoda
Bakker, 1986
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Avepoda Paul, 2002
  • Eutheropoda Novas, Haro & Canale, 2003

Neotheropoda, or "new theropods", is a clade that includes coelophysoids and more advanced theropod dinosaurs.

Definition

Neotheropoda was named by Robert T. Bakker in 1986 as a group including the relatively advanced theropod subgroups Ceratosauria and Tetanurae.[1] However, most later researchers have used it to denote a broader group. Neotheropoda was first defined as a clade by Paul Sereno in 1998 as Coelophysis plus modern birds, which includes almost all theropods except the most primitive species.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bakker, R.T. 1986. The Dinosaur Heresies. William Morrow, New York. 481 pp.
  2. ↑ Sereno, 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.
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