| SN2000 author citation | : |  | O.C. Marsh, 1881 [Gauthier, 1986], nom. cl. praeinit. | 
	
		| Original name & spelling | : |  | Marsh, O.C. 1881. Amer. J. Sci. (3) 21: 423. | 
	
		| Subsequent clade name (orig. spell.) | : |  | Gauthier, J. 1986. In K. Padian (ed.), The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight. Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci. (No. 8): 18 ("n. comb.", "Marsh, 1881b, plus Aves Linne, 1758"). | 
	
		| Original definition [PhyloCode] | : |  | op. cit.: 18 ("defined ostensively"). | 
	
		| Description/Diagnosis in English | : |  | op. cit.: 18-23 ("Diagnosis"). |