Tetanurae

Translingual

From Ancient Greek τετανός (tetanós, “stiff”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).[1]

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Tetanurae

(family): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptilia - class; Eureptilia, Romeriida - clades; Diapsida - subclass; Archosauromorpha - infraclass; Archosauria - division; Ornithodira - subsection; Dinosauria - superorder; Saurischia - order; Theropoda - suborder; Neotheropoda, Averostra - clades

(clade): Orionides - clade; †Megalosauroidea (= Spinosauroidea) - superfamily in Orionides, Avetheropoda - clade in Orionides; †Carnosauria, Coelurosauria - clades in Avetheropoda; †Chilesaurus, †Sinosaurus, †Cryolophosaurus, †Chuandongocoelurus, †Monolophosaurus, †Cruxicheiros, †Kaijiangosaurus - unassigned genera in Tetanurae

Jaques Gauthier, "Saurischian Monophyly and the Origin of Birds", Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, 8 (1986) .

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