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Taxon: Genus †Carnotaurus Bonaparte, 1985 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Abelisauridae (Clade) Bonaparte & Novas 1985 [Novas 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Carnotaurinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Ceratosauroidea (Clade) Bonaparte et al. 1990 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Abelisaurinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Coelophysoidea (Clade) Holtz 1994 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Carnotaurinae (Subfamily) Sereno, 1998 Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A). [implicit]

Alternative positions

†Abelisauridae (Family) Bonaparte & Novas, 1985 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 129.
†Brachyrostra (Clade) Canale et al. 2009 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Carnotaurinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
†Neoceratosauria (Clade) Novas 1991 [Holtz 1994] Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [49]).

Historical positions

†Brachyrostra (Clade) Canale et al. 2009 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Carnotaurinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: 65 (fig. 3.12A).
†Neoceratosauria (Clade) Novas 1991 [Holtz 1994] Ref: R.S. Tykoski & T. Rowe, 2004: table 3.1 (p. [49]).
†Abelisauridae (Family) Bonaparte & Novas, 1985 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 129.
†Abelisauridae (Family) Bonaparte & Novas, 1985 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 109.
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