Teratosauridae, Cope, 1871

John S. McIntosh, 1981, Annotated catalogue of the dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) in the collections of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 18, pp. 1-67 : 7

ORDER SAURISCHIA

SUBORDER THEROPODA

Family Teratosauridae

Teratosaurus and its allies are known from only very fragmentary material, and their position has been the subject of a great deal of controversy. From its traditional assignment as a primitive theropod some have argued that it is really a carnivorous prosauropod, while others have questioned whether it is a saurischian at all. For purposes of this catalogue the conservative position is accepted.