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Monophyletic taxon: †Abelisauridae Bonaparte & Novas 1985 [Novas 1997] (dinosaur)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Clade) Ceratosauria

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

†*Abelisaurus* (Genus) Bonaparte & Novas, 1985		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†*Carnotaurus* (Genus) Bonaparte, 1985		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Generic clade

†Abelisauridae (Clade) Bonaparte & Novas 1985 [Novas 1997]

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Abelisauria (Clade) Novas 1992

Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).

Alternative positions

†*Abelisauroidea* (Clade) Bonaparte 1991 [Holtz 1994]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†*Ceratosauroidea* (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Historical positions

†*Abelisauroidea* (Clade) Bonaparte 1991 [Holtz 1994]	Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 60), figs. 1, 4.
†*Abelisauria* (Clade) Novas 1992	Src: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
†*Ceratosauroidea* (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990	Src: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64), fig. 8.

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