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Tetanurae (/ˌtɛtəˈnjuːriː/ or "stiff tails") is a
clade that
includes most
theropod dinosaurs,
including megalosauroids, allosauroids, and coelurosaurs...
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Benson &
Sampson (2012)
performed much
larger phylogenetic analysis of the
Tetanurae that
includes more taxa. They used the
clade name
Megalosauria (Bonaparte...
- gap.
Averostrans are some of the most
derived theropods and
contain the
Tetanurae and Ceratosauria.
While some used to
consider coelophysoids and ceratosaurs...
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including the
majority of non-coleurosaurian
members of
theropod clade Tetanurae.
Other researchers have
found Allosauroidea and
Megalosauroidea to be...
- theropods,
while the
skull resembles much
later species of the
clade Tetanurae, like China's
Sinraptor and Yangchuanosaurus. This led Paul
Sereno et...
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allosauroid displaying a
mosaic of
primitive and
derived features seen
within Tetanurae.
Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent...
- of the
known Gasosaurus fossils, it has an
uncertain position within Tetanurae, and
probably lays
outside Coelurosauria. A
detailed restudy of the holotype...
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subfamily Metriacanthosaurinae.
Below is a
simplified cladogram of
Tetanurae by
Matthew Carrano et al. (2012). von Huene, F. (1923). "Carnivorous Saurischia...
- Carrano, M. T.; Benson, R. B. J.; Sampson, S. D. (2012). "The
phylogeny of
Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)".
Journal of
Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2):...
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clade to be
outside of
Megalosauroidea and Neotetanurae, near the base of
Tetanurae. A 2012
phylogeny found Monolophosaurus and Chuandongocoelurus, while...
