Tetanurae (/ˌtɛtəˈnjuːriː/ or "stiff tails") is a clade that includes most theropod dinosaurs, including megalosauroids, allosauroids, and coelurosaurs...

Benson & Sampson (2012) performed much larger phylogenetic analysis of the Tetanurae that includes more taxa. They used the clade name Megalosauria (Bonaparte...

gap. Averostrans are some of the most derived theropods and contain the Tetanurae and Ceratosauria. While some used to consider coelophysoids and ceratosaurs...

including the majority of non-coleurosaurian members of theropod clade Tetanurae. Other researchers have found Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea to be...

theropods, while the skull resembles much later species of the clade Tetanurae, like China's Sinraptor and Yangchuanosaurus. This led Paul Sereno et...

allosauroid displaying a mosaic of primitive and derived features seen within Tetanurae. Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent...

clade to be outside of Megalosauroidea and Neotetanurae, near the base of Tetanurae. A 2012 phylogeny found Monolophosaurus and Chuandongocoelurus, while...

of the known Gasosaurus fossils, it has an uncertain position within Tetanurae, and probably lays outside Coelurosauria. A detailed restudy of the holotype...

the subfamily Metriacanthosaurinae. Below is a simplified cladogram of Tetanurae by Matthew Carrano et al. (2012). von Huene, F. (1923). "Carnivorous Saurischia...

Carrano, M. T.; Benson, R. B. J.; Sampson, S. D. (2012). "The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2):...

tetanurans in 2004 and Carrano et al.'s comprehensive 2012 analysis of Tetanurae accepted Saurophaganax as a distinct genus. Possible Saurophaganax material...

the Allosauroidea. Most researchers give a less precise placement as Tetanurae incertae sedis. Owen, R., 1856, Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the...

12591a, a perhaps more derived theropod, possibly a basal member of the Tetanurae. In 2012 Knoll after a CAT-scan reaffirmed that SMNS 12352 was a crocodylomorph...

birds, grouped the majority of theropods into either Ceratosauria or Tetanurae. In Ceratosauria, he placed the ceratosaurs and coelophysoids. Gauthier's...

originally found Giganotosaurus to group more closely with the theropod clade Tetanurae than to more basal (or "primitive") theropods such as ceratosaurs, due...

†Family Abelisauridae †Family Noasauridae †Family Ceratosauridae Infraorder Tetanurae †Superfamily Megalosauroidea †Family Megalosauridae †Family Spinosauridae...

sacral vertebrae and 50 to 60 tail vertebrae, as is common for basal Tetanurae. The Stonesfield Slate material contains no neck vertebrae; but a single...

paleontological terms in a more rigorous fashion, based on cladistic methods. Tetanurae was defined as modern birds and all theropods more closely related to...

Pablo; Perea, Daniel (2020-03-01). "A large sized megalosaurid (Theropoda, Tetanurae) from the late Jurassic of Uruguay and Tanzania". Journal of South American...

juveniles but herbivorous as adults) †Noasaurinae (small carnivores) Tetanurae (stiff-tailed dinosaurs) †Megalosauroidea (early group of large carnivores)...

Cryolophosaurus in a polytomy at the base of Tetanurae. Recent studies placed Sinosaurus outside the Ceratosauria+Tetanurae clade, while Wang et al. (2016) considered...

unknown, but it belongs somewhere inside the theropod subgroup known as Tetanurae and most likely was a member of the family Spinosauridae. Two distal caudal...

allosauroid displaying a mosaic of primitive and derived features seen within Tetanurae. Their phylogenetic analysis found traditional Megalosauroidea to represent...

1038/34356. S2CID 4430927. Holtz TR, Molnar RE, Currie PJ (2004). "Basal Tetanurae". In Weishampel DB, Osmólska H, Dodson P (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed...

of the Dinosauria, subsequent studies place it as indeterminate beyond Tetanurae, either a carcharodontosaurian or megalosaurid. Although obscure, it was...

Palaeontological Association: 2003 Holtz, Thomas R. et al. (2004). "Basal Tetanurae." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds...

Carrano, M. T.; Benson, R. B. J.; Sampson, S. D. (2012). "The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2):...

Carrano, M. T.; Benson, R. B. J.; Sampson, S. D. (2012). "The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2):...

the Tetanurae appeared during the late Early Jurassic or early Middle Jurassic. The Megalosauridae represent the oldest radiation of the Tetanurae, first...

Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut in 2003, and to a very basal position in Tetanurae by Thomas Holtz in 1994. All these assignments are not supported by present...