Avemetatarsalia

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladi: Ornithodira – †Aphanosauria

secundum Benton, 1999

Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladi: Ornithodira – †Scleromochlidae

secundum Nesbitt et al., 2017

Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladi: Ornithodira – †Aphanosauria

secundum Ezcurra et al., 2020

Cladus: Panaves
Cladi: Ornithodira – †Aphanosauria

Name

Avemetatarsalia Benton, 1999: 1440

Synonyms

• Panaves

References

Primary references

• Benton, M.J. 1999. Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 354(1388): 1423–1446. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0489 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Additional references

• Nesbitt, S.J., Butler, R.J., Ezcurra, M.D., Barrett, P.M., Stocker, M.R., Angielczyk, K.D., Smith, R.M.H., Sidor, C.A., Niedźwiedzki, G., Sennikov, A.G. & Charig, A.J. 2017. The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan. Nature 544: 484–487. DOI: 10.1038/nature22037 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Ezcurra, M.D., Nesbitt, S.J., Bronzati, M., Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Agnolin, F.L., Benson, R.B.J., Egli, F.B., Cabreira, S.F., Evers, S.W., Gentil, A.R., Irmis, R.B., Martinelli, A.G., Novas, F.E., da Silva, L.R., Smith, N.D., Stocker, M.R., Turner, A.H. & Langer, M.C. 2020. Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria. Nature 588: 445–449. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4 Reference page.