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Monophyletic taxon: †Metriacanthosaurinae Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68).

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

†Metriacanthosaurus parkeri (Huene, 1923) Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68) (modified from Carrano et al., 2012).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis Dong, Chang, Li & Zhou, 1978 Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68) (modified from Carrano et al., 2012).

Generic clade

†Metriacanthosaurinae (Clade) Paul 1988 [Carrano et al. 2012] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68) (modified from Carrano et al., 2012).

Current position

†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997] Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68).

Historical positions

†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997] Src: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: table (p. 68). [implicit]
†Metriacanthosauridae (Clade) Carrano et al. 2012 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997] Src: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
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