Avetheropoda

Avetheropoda, or "bird theropods", is a clade that includes carnosaurs and coelurosaurs to the exclusion of other dinosaurs.

Definition
Avetheropoda was named by Gregory S. Paul in 1988, and was first defined as a clade by Currie and Padian in 1997, as Allosaurus plus modern birds. This same definition was used by Paul Sereno one year later for a clade he named Neotetanurae ("new tetanurans"), which is still used by some researchers in place of Avetheropoda.