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Megalosauria

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Megalosauria was named by Bonaparte (1850).

It was synonymized subjectively with Dinosaurii by Bonaparte (1850); it was reranked as the suborder Megalosauria by Seeley (1892), Osborn (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Theropoda by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the superfamily Megalosauria by Lull (1915), Lull (1917); it was reranked as the unranked clade Megalosauria by Jaekel (1911), Carrano et al. (2012).

It was assigned to Archosauria by Baur (1891); to Praepubici by Jaekel (1911); to Theropoda by Lull (1915); to Theropoda by Osborn (1904), Lull (1912), Lull (1917); to Saurischia by Seeley (1892), Nopcsa (1923); and to Megalosauroidea by Carrano et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Megalosauria Bonaparte p. 1
1891Megalosauria Baur pp. 450-451
1892Megalosauria Seeley p. 188
1904Megalosauria Osborn p. 113
1911Megalosauria Jaekel p. 159
1912Megalosauria Lull p. 411
1915Megalosauria Lull p. 118
1917Megalosauria Lull p. 111
1923Megalosauria Nopcsa p. 126
2012Megalosauria Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
RankNameAuthor
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
superfamilyMegalosauroidea()
—Megalosauria()
—Megalosauria()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Unr. †Megalosauria Bonaparte 1850
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G. †Streptospondylus Meyer 1832
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Invalid names: Laelaps gallicus Cope 1867 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available