Cladogram of basal Theropoda and phylogenetic position of <i>Torvosaurus gurneyi</i>.

<p>Strict consensus cladogram from 71 most parsimonious trees after pruning <i>Magnosaurus</i>, <i>Poekilopleuron</i>, <i>Streptospondylus</i> and <i>Xuanhanosaurus</i> from the full set of most parsimonious trees. Initial analysis used New Technology Search using TNT v.1.1 of a data matrix comprising 353 characters for two outgroup (<i>Eoraptor</i> and <i>Herrerasaurus</i>) and 60 nonavian theropod taxa. Tree length = 1022 steps; CI = 0.414, RI = 0.685. Bremer support values are in regular and bootstrap values are in bold. Dinosaur silhouettes by Scott Hartman (all but Metriacanthosauridae; used with permission) and Gregory S. Paul (Metriacanthosauridae; used with permission).