Rauhut, Oliver Foth, Christian 2020 Research in the late 1900s has established that birds are theropod dinosaurs, with the discovery of feather preservation in non-avian theropods being the last decisive evidence for the dinosaur origin of this group. Partially due to the great interest in the origin of birds, more phylogenetic analyses of non-avian theropod dinosaurs have probably been published than for any other group of fossil vertebrates. Despite a lot of uncertainty in the exact placement of many taxa and even some major clades, there is a remarkable consensus about the hierarchical position of birds (here used for the total group, Avialae) within theropod dinosaurs. Thus, birds are part of Paraves, together with such well-known theropod groups as dromaeosaurids and troodontids; Paraves are part of Maniraptora, which furthermore include Oviraptorosauria, Therizinosauroidea and Alvarezsauridae; Maniraptora belong to Maniraptoriformes, which also include Ornithomimosauria; Maniraptoriformes are a subclade of Coelurosauria, to which Tyrannosauroidea and some other basal taxa also belong; Coelurosauria are part of Tetanurae, together with Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea; finally, Tetanurae are a subclade of Theropoda, which also include Ceratosauria and Coelophysoidea. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/325285 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/325285/files/rauhut_foth_birdorigins_final_c_2.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-27223-4_3 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2509-6745 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9783030272227 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Rights reserved The Evolution of Feathers. - Springer International Publishing. - 2020, p. 27-45 Theropoda Avialae Aves phylogenetic hierarchy info:eu-repo/classification/udc/56 The Origin of Birds: Current Consensus, Controversy, and the Occurrence of Feathers http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248