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Clade vs Tetanuran - What's the difference?

clade | tetanuran |

As nouns the difference between clade and tetanuran

is that clade is (biology|systematics) a group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species while tetanuran is any theropod dinosaur of the clade tetanurae, all theropods that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus (taxlink).

As an adjective tetanuran is

of or pertaining to the dinosaurs of the clade tetanurae.

clade

English

(wikipedia clade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology, systematics) A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor species.
  • * 2001 , Ross H. Nehm, 6: Linking Evolutionary Pattern and Development Process in Marginellid Gastropods'', Alan H. Cheetham, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard, Frank K. McKinney (editors), ''Evolutionary Patterns: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record , page 166,
    • All three clades containing Prunum'' and “''Volvarina ” species contain morphological features that do not collectively appear in any other living or fossil marginellid species (see above).
  • * 2002 , , page 1092,
    • No one has ever tabulated the number or percentage of non-trending clades' within larger monophyletic groups. The concept of a non-trending '''clade''' — the higher level analog of a species in stasis — has never been explicitly formulated at all. If only one percent of ' clades exhibited sustained trends, we would still focus our attention upon this tiny minority in telling our favored version of the story of life's history.
  • * 2004 September 11, Bob Holmes, Linnean naming system faces challengers'', ''New Scientist , page 13,
    • A clade is made up of an ancestral species and all its descendants; think of it as that part of an evolutionary tree that would fall off with a single saw cut.
  • (genetics) A higher level grouping of a genetic haplogroup.

    • Derived terms

    * cladist * cladistic * cladistics * cladogenesis * cladogram

    See also

    * monophyletic * phylogenetic * taxon ** class, family, genus, kingdom, order, phylum, species * taxonomy * (cladistics)

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    tetanuran

    English

    (wikipedia tetanuran) (Tetanurae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus (taxlink).
  • *{{quote-journal, 1999, date=June 25, Paul C. Sereno, The Evolution of Dinosaurs, Science citation
    • , passage=The oldest tetanuran , the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus , was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the dinosaurs of the clade Tetanurae.
  • *{{quote-journal, 1998, date=May 15, Scott D. Sampson et al., Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of Gondwana, Science citation
    • , passage=During Late Cretaceous times, the top predators in most Laurasian terrestrial ecosystems were the large-bodied tyrannosaurids, which suggests that this tetanuran clade may have originated after the split between Laurasia and Gondwana. }}