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Dinosauria

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The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.

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Tree after Sereno 1999.
Containing group: Archosauria

References

Benton, M. J. 1998. Dinosaur fossils with soft parts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13:303-304.

Carpenter, K. and P. J. Currie, eds. 1990. Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Carpenter, K., K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner, eds. 1994. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Chiappe, L. M. and L. Dingus. 2001. Walking on Eggs: The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia. Scribner, New York.

Currie, P. J. and K. Padian, eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, New York.

Dingus, L. and T. Rowe. 1998. The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Extinction and the Origin of Birds. W. H. Freeman, New York.

Farlow, J. O. and M. K. Brett-Surman, eds. 1997. The Complete Dinosaur. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Fastovsky, D. E. and D. B. Weishampel. 1996. The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York.

Norell, M. A., L. Dingus, and E. S. Gaffney. 2000. Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif.

Norman, D. B. 1985. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Salamander Books, London.

Novacek, M. J. and E. Heck. 1996. Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs. Anchor Books, New York.

Pisani, D., A. M. Yates, M. C. Langer, and M. J. Benton. 2002. A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 269:915-921.

Sereno, P. C. 1997. The origin and evolution of dinosaurs. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25:435-489.

Sereno, P. C. 1999. The evolution of dinosaurs. Science 284:2137-2147.

Weishampel, D. B., P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska, eds. 1990. The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley.

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