Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1894. Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. Part IX. Section 1. On the Therosuchia [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 55:224-226
Parent taxon: Therapsida according to C. F. Kammerer 2016
See also Battail and Surkov 2000, Boonstra 1969, Carroll 1988, Gauthier et al. 1989, Haughton and Brink 1954, Huene 1954, Ivakhnenko 2003, Kemp 1982, Kuhn 1946, Olson 1966, Olson 1974, Rubidge and Sidor 2001, Seeley 1895 and Sigogneau-Russell 1989
Sister taxa: Anomodontia, Biarmosuchia, Brontopus, Cynodontia, Dicynodontipus, Eoraetia, Eotheriodontia, Eutherapsida, Moltenotetrapodiscus, Novocynodon kutorgai, Raranimus, Rubidginia, Stathmodon, Tetraceratops, Therocephalia, Tricuspes, Tritylodontia
Subtaxa: Broomisaurus planiceps Cerdodon Cynarioides gracilis Cyniscodon Cyniscodon lydekkeri Cyniscops Cynodraco Cynodraco major Cynodraco serridens Dixeya Eriphostoma Estemmenosuchida Galesuchidae Gorgonopida Gorgonopidae Hipposaurus kitchingi Ictidorhinida Karoopes Nikkasaurida Nochnitsa Phorcys Scylacognathus major Viatkogorgon Watongiidae
Ecology: carnivore