Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Family) Megalosauridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 66) (Allain, 2002).
†Megalosauroidea (Clade) Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 67) (Sereno, 1998: as "Spinosauroidea").
†Spinosauroidea (Clade) Olshevsky 1995		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Torvosauridae (Clade) Jensen 1985

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

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Spinosauridae (Clade) Stromer 1915 [Sereno 1998]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
Tetanurae (Clade) Gauthier 1986		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Megalosaurinae (Subfamily) Fitzinger, 1843

Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292).

Alternative positions

†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 109.
†Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Megalosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]).

Historical positions

†Megalosauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1850 [Allain 2002]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Megalosaurinae (Subfamily) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
†Megalosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [72]), 95 (fig. 4.20).
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 109.
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 1 Jan 2019	[; †1s]