Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Carcharodontosauridae (Clade) Stromer 1931 [Sereno 1998]

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

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Allosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).
†Sinraptoridae (Clade) Currie & Zhao 1993 [Padian & Hutchinson 1997]		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Carcharodontosaurinae (Subfamily) Stromer, 1931

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

Alternative positions

†Allosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1878	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 112.
†Carcharodontosauridae (Clade) Stromer 1931 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).

Historical positions

†Carcharodontosauridae (Clade) Stromer 1931 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: C. Hendrickx et al., 2015: 11 (fig. 4).
†Carcharodontosaurinae (Subfamily) Stromer, 1931	Ref: M.T. Carrano et al., 2012: App. 1 (p. 292), fig. 8A.
†Carcharodontosauridae (Clade) Stromer 1931 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. et al., 2004: table 4.1 (p. [75]), 95 (fig. 4.20).
†Allosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1878	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 112.
†Megalosauridae (Family) Fitzinger, 1843	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 2 Jan 2019	[; †2s]