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Abelisauroidea

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Abelisauroidea was named by Bonaparte (1991) [Reference cites Novas (1989) as source of name, but that is a PhD thesis, so cannot serve as origin for nomenclatural purposes.]. Its type is Abelisaurus. It was considered monophyletic by de Azevedo et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Theropoda by Carrano et al. (2002); to Abelisauria by Coria et al. (2002), Martínez et al. (2004); to Neoceratosauria by Rowe et al. (1997), Holtz (2000), Lamanna et al. (2002), Carrano et al. (2002), Tykoski and Rowe (2004), Tortosa et al. (2014); to Ceratosauria by Bonaparte (1991), Sereno et al. (1994), Sereno and Brusatte (2008), Cerroni et al. (2020), Aranciaga Rolando et al. (2021), Iori et al. (2021), Agnolín et al. (2021), Baiano et al. (2022), Juarez et al. (2023); to Theropoda by Novas et al. (2008), Paulina-Carabajal et al. (2021), Agnolin et al. (2025); and to Ceratosauria by Rauhut (2003), Yates (2005), Sampson and Witmer (2007), Krause et al. (2007), Carrano and Sampson (2008), Ezcurra et al. (2010), Novas et al. (2013), de Azevedo et al. (2013), Hendrickx and Mateus (2014), Gasparini et al. (2015), Gianechini et al. (2015), Zaher et al. (2020), Baiano et al. (2020), Delcourt and Iori (2020), Baiano et al. (2021), Giaretta et al. (2023), Agnolín et al. (2024), Jiménez Velandia et al. (2025), Boschetto et al. (2026).

Subtaxa
Ornithomimoides, Ornithomimoides barasimlensis, Ornithomimoides mobilis, Vitakrisauridae
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2003-09-19; modified by M. Carrano on 2022-02-09

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Ornithomimoides Huene p. 64
1933Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Huene p. 64 fig. 21
1933Ornithomimoides mobilis Huene p. 64 fig. 20
1933Ornithomimoides Huene p. 645 figs. 2-21
1939Ornithomimoides Kuhn p. 56
1939Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Kuhn p. 56
1939Ornithomimoides mobilis Kuhn p. 56
1956Ornithomimoides Romer p. 613
1957Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Lapparent p. 111
1957Ornithomimoides mobilis Lapparent p. 111
1958Ornithomimoides Huene p. 205
1964Ornithomimoides Tatarinov p. 535
1966Ornithomimoides Romer p. 369
1970Ornithomimoides Steel p. 19
1970Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Steel p. 19
1970Ornithomimoides mobilis Steel p. 19
1980Ornithomimoides Molnar p. 139
1988Ornithomimoides Carroll
1988Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 416
1988Ornithomimoides mobilis Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 416
1989Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Jain p. 100
1989Ornithomimoides mobilis Jain p. 100
1989Ornithomimoides Kurzanov p. 4
1991Abelisauroidea Bonaparte p. 22
1992Abelisauria Novas p. 127
1994Abelisauroidea Sereno et al. p. 270
1996Ornithomimoides mobilis Kohring et al. p. 51
1996Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Loyal et al. p. 629
1996Ornithomimoides mobilis Loyal et al. p. 629
1997Abelisauria Novas p. 683
1997Abelisauroidea Rowe et al. p. 109
2000Abelisauria Coria and Salgado
2000Abelisauroidea Holtz, Jr. p. 16 fig. 5
2001Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Mohabey p. 484
2001Ornithomimoides mobilis Mohabey p. 484
2002Abelisauroidea Carrano et al.
2002Abelisauria Coria et al.
2002Abelisauroidea Coria et al.
2002Abelisauroidea Lamanna et al. p. 63
2003Abelisauroidea Rauhut p. 141
2004Abelisauria Calvo et al. p. 556
2004Abelisauria Martínez et al. p. 578
2004Abelisauroidea Martínez et al. p. 578
2004Abelisauroidea Tykoski and Rowe p. 49
2004Abelisauria Tykoski and Rowe p. 65 fig. 3.12
2005Abelisauroidea Yates p. 118 fig. 9
2007Abelisauroidea Krause et al. p. 2
2007Abelisauroidea Sampson and Witmer p. 38
2008Abelisauroidea Carrano and Sampson pp. 199-200 fig. 4
2008Abelisauroidea Novas et al. p. 629
2008Abelisauroidea Sereno and Brusatte p. 17
2010Abelisauroidea Ezcurra et al. p. 14 fig. 8
2013Abelisauroidea Novas et al. p. 176
2013Abelisauroidea de Azevedo et al.
2014Abelisauroidea Hendrickx and Mateus
2014Abelisauria Tavares et al. p. 61
2014Abelisauroidea Tortosa et al. p. 70
2015Abelisauroidea Gasparini et al.
2015Abelisauroidea Gianechini et al.
2020Abelisauroidea Baiano et al.
2020Abelisauroidea Cerroni et al. p. 7
2020Abelisauroidea Delcourt and Iori
2020Abelisauroidea Zaher et al.
2021Abelisauroidea Agnolín et al.
2021Abelisauroidea Aranciaga Rolando et al. p. 3
2021Abelisauroidea Baiano et al.
2021Abelisauroidea Iori et al. p. 4
2021Abelisauroidea Paulina-Carabajal et al.
2022Abelisauroidea Baiano et al. p. 4
2023Abelisauroidea Giaretta et al.
2023Abelisauroidea Juarez et al. p. 6
2023Ornithomimoides Khosla and Lucas p. 718
2023Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Khosla and Lucas p. 718
2023Ornithomimoides mobilis Khosla and Lucas p. 718
2024Abelisauroidea Agnolín et al.
2025Abelisauroidea Agnolin et al. p. 234
2025Abelisauroidea Jiménez Velandia et al. p. 6
2026Abelisauroidea Boschetto et al.

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

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.

Superfm. †Abelisauroidea Bonaparte 1991
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Fm. †Vitakrisauridae Malkani 2010
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G. †Samanadrinda Malkani 2007
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†Samanadrinda surghari Malkani 2007
Subfm. †Vitakrisaurinae Malkani 2010
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G. †Vitakridrinda Malkani 2004
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†Vitakridrinda sulaimani Malkani 2004
G. †Vitakrisaurus Malkani 2010
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†Vitakrisaurus saraiki Malkani 2010
Invalid names: Rajasaurinae Malkani 2010 [empty]
Invalid names: Abelisauria Novas 1992 [synonym], Ornithomimoides Huene 1933 [nomen dubium], Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Huene 1933 [nomen dubium], Ornithomimoides mobilis Huene 1933 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available