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Coelurosauria (coelurosaur)

Taxonomy
Coelurosauria was named by Huene (1914). It is extant.

It was reranked as the infraorder Coelurosauria by Lapparent (1947), Delair (1960), Simmons (1965), Romer (1966), Haubold (1971), Delair (1973), Baird and Horner (1979), Battail (1986) and Buscalioni and Sanz (1987); it was reranked as the unranked clade Coelurosauria by Gauthier and Padian (1985), Gauthier (1986), Gauthier et al. (1989), Osmolska (1990), Novas (1992), Chatterjee (1993), Sereno et al. (1994), Holtz (1994), Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Sereno (1995), Holtz and Padian (1995), Holtz (1995), Currie (1995), Sereno et al. (1996), Holtz (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Holtz (1998), Sereno (1999), Holtz (2000), Rauhut (2003), Holtz et al. (2004), Yates (2005), Coria and Currie (2006), Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007), Zhang et al. (2008), Zanno et al. (2011), Carrano et al. (2012), Xu et al. (2012) and Choiniere et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Saurischia by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Matthew (1915), Huene (1920), Nopcsa (1923), Huene (1926), Huene (1926), Parks (1928), Huene (1929), Huene (1948), Bock (1952) and Zhao (1983); to Theropoda by Lapparent (1947), Delair (1960), Simmons (1965), Romer (1966), Haubold (1971), Delair (1973), Baird and Horner (1979), Battail (1986) and Buscalioni and Sanz (1987); to Neotetanurae by Sereno et al. (1994), Sereno et al. (1996), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Theropoda by Gauthier and Padian (1985), Gauthier et al. (1989), Currie (1995), Zhang et al. (2008), Zanno et al. (2011) and Xu et al. (2011); to Avetheropoda by Holtz (1994), Holtz (1995), Holtz (1996), Holtz (2000), Holtz et al. (2004), Yates (2005) and Carrano et al. (2012); to Theropoda by Lull (1953), Romer (1956), Walker (1964), Estes (1964), Colbert (1964), Colbert and Russell (1969), Swinton (1970), Steel (1970), Colbert (1970), Osmólska et al. (1972), Barsbold (1976), Barsbold (1977), Ostrom (1980), Santafé et al. (1982), Dong et al. (1983), Barsbold (1983), Russell (1984), Zinke (1998), Gao and Liu (2005), Xu et al. (2010), Xu et al. (2011), Xu et al. (2012) and Agnolin et al. (2012); and to Tetanurae by Gauthier (1986), Benton (1990), Osmolska (1990), Novas (1992), Chatterjee (1993), Pérez-Moreno et al. (1994), Sereno (1995), Holtz and Padian (1995), Holtz (1998), Rauhut (2003), Coria and Currie (2006), Sánchez-Hernández et al. (2007) and Choiniere et al. (2013).

Subtaxa
Alvarezsauria, Aniksosaurus, Aorun, Bicentenaria, Bressanichnus, Britoichnium, Coelurus (syn. Coelurus gracilis), Columbosauripus, Compsognathidae, Compsognathus, Defarrariischnium, Halticosauridae, Ignotornis, Juravenator, Lapparentichnus, Lourinhanosaurus, Maniraptora (syn. Palaeopteryx), Maniraptoriformes, Nedcolbertia, Ngexisaurus, Ornitholestes, Ornithomimipus (syn. Irenichnites), Plesiothornipus, Proceratosaurus, Richardoestesia, Satapliasaurus, Segisauridae, Shensipus, Sinosauropteryx, Tanycolagreus, Taupezia, Therizinosauroidea (syn. Segnosauria, Segnosaurischia), Tugulusaurus, Tyrannosauroidea (syn. Deinodon, Aublysodon, Laelaps macropus, Tomodon horrificus, Diplotomodon, Tyrannosaurus lanpingensis), Xinjiangovenator, Zuolong

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Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1883Megalosaurus lonzeensis Dollo pp. 212-214 fig. 4
1914Coelurosauria Huene p. 36
1915Coelurosauria Matthew p. 32
1920Coelurosauria Huene p. 161
1923Coelurosauria Nopcsa p. 125
1926Ornithomimidorum lonzeensis Huene pp. 87-88
1926Coelurosauria Huene pp. 103-104
1928Coeluroidea Nopcsa
1928Coelurosauria Parks p. 3
1929Coelurosauria Huene p. 269
1947Coelurosauria Lapparent pp. 16-17
1947Megalosaurus lonzeensis Lapparent p. 20
1948Coelurosauria Huene p. 88
1952Coelurosauria Bock p. 401
1953Coelurosauria Lull p. 123
1956Coelurosauria Romer p. 610
1960Coelurosauria Delair p. 76
1964Coelurosauria Colbert p. 21 fig. 6
1964Coelurosauria Estes p. 142
1964Coelurosauria Walker p. 105
1965Coelurosauria Simmons p. 53
1966Coelurosauria Romer p. 369
1969Coelurosauria Colbert and Russell p. 45
1970Coelurosauria Colbert p. 27
1970Coelurosauria Steel p. 7
1970Megalosaurus lonzeensis Steel p. 35
1970Coelurosauria Swinton p. 117
1971Coelurosauria Haubold p. 65
1972Coelurosauria Osmólska et al. p. 105
1973Coelurosauria Delair p. 1
1976Coelurosauria Barsbold p. 74
1977Coelurosauria Barsbold p. 50
1979Coelurosauria Baird and Horner p. 9
1980Coelurosauria Ostrom p. 21
1982Coelurosauria Santafé et al. p. 81
1983Coelurosauria Barsbold p. 86
1983Coelurosauria Dong et al.
1983Coelurosauria Zhao p. 296
1984Coelurosauria Russell p. 28
1985Coelurosauria Gauthier and Padian pp. 189-190 fig. 2
1986Coelurosauria Battail p. 47
1986Coelurosauria Gauthier p. 54 fig. 7
1987Coelurosauria Buscalioni and Sanz p. 66
1989Coelurosauria Gauthier et al. p. 347
1990Coelurosauria Benton p. 19
1990Coelurosauria Osmolska p. 149
1992Coelurosauria Novas p. 144
1993Coelurosauria Chatterjee p. 283
1994Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr.
1994Coelurosauria Pérez-Moreno et al. p. 184 fig. 1
1994Coelurosauria Sereno et al. p. 268 fig. 3
1995Coelurosauria Currie p. 25A
1995Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. p. 35A
1995Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. and Padian p. 35A
1995Coelurosauria Sereno p. 53A
1996Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. p. 42A
1996Coelurosauria Sereno et al. p. 989 fig. 4
1997Coelurosauria Sereno p. 444
1998Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. p. 39
1998Coelurosauria Sereno p. 64
1998Coelurosauria Zinke p. 181
1999Coelurosauria Sereno p. 2139 fig. 2
2000Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. p. 23 fig. 5
2003Coelurosauria Rauhut p. 143
2004Coelurosauria Holtz, Jr. et al. p. 76
2005Coelurosauria Gao and Liu p. 313
2005Coelurosauria Yates p. 118 fig. 9
2006Coelurosauria Coria and Currie p. 108 fig. 35
2007Coelurosauria Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 192
2008Coelurosauria Zhang et al. p. 1105
2010Coelurosauria Xu et al. p. 2
2011Coelurosauria Xu et al. p. 2338
2011Coelurosauria Xu et al. p. 2
2011Coelurosauria Zanno et al. p. 3
2012Coelurosauria Agnolin et al. p. 35
2012Coelurosauria Carrano et al. p. 248 fig. 7
2012Coelurosauria Xu et al. p. 141
2013Coelurosauria Choiniere et al.

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