"matter of convenience", as its describers did not want to name a new family for such fragmentary remains. Tom Holtz and colleagues (2004) considered it to be an indeterminate member of Tetanurae, though they did not include it in a phylogenetic analysis. The first such analysis was performed by Benson in 2010. He found that while its exact placement was unresolved, it always grouped with a member of the clade Megalosauridae, and so most likely belonged to that family. The phylogenetic position of Piveteausaurus according to Carrano et al. (2012) is shown by this cladogram: References Sources External links Piveteausaurus in the Theropod Database Piveteausaurus in the Paleobiology Database Megalosaurs Oxfordian life Middle Jurassic dinosaurs of Europe Jurassic France Fossils of France Fossil taxa described in 1977 Taxa named by Philippe Taquet Taxa named by Samuel Paul Welles