Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Ornithischia - (Family) Stegosauridae

Phylogeny

Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para)

Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 157 ("paragenus").

Descendants

†Diracodon (Genus) Marsh, 1881, nom. dub.

Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 157 ("almost certainly").

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Eurypoda (Clade) Sereno 1986

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Stegosauria (Clade) Marsh 1877		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Stegosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1880		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Stegosaurinae (Clade) Abel 1919		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61). [implicit]
†Stegosauruinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 [Sereno 1998], nom. null.		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Ankylosauria (Clade) Osborn 1923		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
Saurischia (Clade) Seeley 1887 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: M.C. Langer, 2004: 41.

Current position

†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880

Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997)

Alternative positions

†Stegosaurinae (Clade) Abel 1919

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: 66.

Historical positions

†Stegosaurinae (Clade) Abel 1919	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: 66.
†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 157.
†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880	Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 622).
†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880	Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.
†Stegosauria (Suborder) Marsh, 1877	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
†Stegosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1880	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 596.

Number of Subtaxa

2026

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†9s