page_title: Chuandongocoelurus
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Chuandongocoelurus / Classification
caption_attribution_description: English: Size of Chuandongocoelurus compared to human.
context_page_description: Chuandongocoelurus is a genus of carnivorous tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of China.
context_section_description: He placed Chuandongocoelurus in the Coeluridae, at the time a wastebasket taxon including almost all small theropods. David Bruce Norman in 1990 considered it to be an indeterminate theropod. More recently, Roger Benson (2008, 2010) and Benson et al. (2010) found it to be the sister taxon of Monolophosaurus, together forming a clade belonging either to Megalosauroidea or outside of Megalosauroidea in the Tetanurae. In 2012, Matthew Carrano et al. found Chuandongocoelurus outside of the Megalosauroidea.
  The cladogram below follows Rauhut and Pol (2019):
caption: Size comparison of Chuandongocoelurus to a human
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