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A simplified phylogeny of dinosaurs, showing all the major groups with several examples for each. Some placements, marked with "?", are controversial, especially in the deepest part of the tree.

The groups that lack a red bar, or that have their name between quotes, are paraphyletic, which means they exclude part of their descendance.

The example silhouettes are from the website PhyloPic , and typically released under a variant of the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, except three that were derived from Wikimedia Commons files released under the same license. In all cases, the names of the original authors are given in the box in the lower right.

The maps on the left show the position of continents in five different timepoints of the Mesozoic. They are derived from the maps of Christopher Scotese's Paleomap , which may be used for non-commercial purposes giving credit to the original author.

Edit: 6 months in, and only now I realize the "Theropoda" marker is in the wrong place. It should be one node to the right, at the confluence of the Dilophosauridae and Coelophysoidea branches.

Edit (03-03-19): fixed the aforementioned.

Description

A simplified phylogeny of dinosaurs, showing all the major groups with several examples for each. Some placements, marked with "?", are controversial, especially in the deepest part of the tree.

The groups that lack a red bar, or that have their name between quotes, are paraphyletic, which means they exclude part of their descendance.

The example silhouettes are from the website PhyloPic , and typically released under a variant of the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, except three that were derived from Wikimedia Commons files released under the same license. In all cases, the names of the original authors are given in the box in the lower right.

The maps on the left show the position of continents in five different timepoints of the Mesozoic. They are derived from the maps of Christopher Scotese's Paleomap , which may be used for non-commercial purposes giving credit to the original author.

Edit: 6 months in, and only now I realize the "Theropoda" marker is in the wrong place. It should be one node to the right, at the confluence of the Dilophosauridae and Coelophysoidea branches.

Edit (03-03-19): fixed the aforementioned.