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Taxon: Genus †Ankylosaurus Brown, 1908 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Ancestor

†Euoplocephalus (Genus) Lambe, 1910 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 154.

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Eurypoda (Clade) Sereno 1986 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Genasauria (Clade) Sereno 1986 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Ankylosauria (Clade) Osborn 1923 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Ankylosauridae (Clade) Brown 1908 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Ankylosaurinae (Clade) Nopcsa 1918 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Thyreophora (Clade) Nopcsa 1915 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Neornithischia (Clade) Cooper 1985 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Nodosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1890 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).
†Stegosauria (Clade) Marsh 1877 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 61).

Current position

†Ankylosaurinae (Subfamily) Brown, 1908 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Alternative positions

†Ankylosauridae (Family) Brown, 1908 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997)

Historical positions

†Ankylosauridae (Family) Brown, 1908 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 153.
†Ankylosauridae (Family) Brown, 1908 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Ankylosauridae (Family) Brown, 1908 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 622).
†Ankylosaurinae (Subfamily) Brown, 1908 Ref: P. Sereno, 1986: 252.

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †1s
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